The degradation of tropical forest ecosystems is not something new. What is now particularly alarming is the rate and the scale at which this phenomenon occurs and its enormous social and biological consequences. Expanding degraded forests increase the pressure on remaining forests. Restoring production potential in degraded forests is essential to prevent further degradation of remaining forests. Such rehabilitation schemes for degraded forests should increase the welfare of local people by involving them in the rehabilitation activities. However, most of forest rehabilitation projects focus on technical aspects and pay scant attention to socio-economic viability, acceptability and sustainability of the system. Then there is vital need to monitor and learn from past and on going rehabilitation efforts, and understand the ecological and socio-economic factors that have contributed to success and failure, in order to better design and guide for future rehabilitation efforts. Long-term monitoring as well as evaluation of rehabilitation efforts will contribute to show the benefits of forest rehabilitation. Network of forest rehabilitation initiatives will strengthen the impact of those activities and provide proper rehabilitation measures.
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