Improve forest restoration initiatives to meet Sustainable Development Goal 15

Monoculture plantations have been promoted for the restoration of the world's forested area, but these have not contained or reversed the loss of biodiversity. More innovative incentive policies should be implemented to shift the planet's forest restoration policies from increasing the area of forests per se to improving their biodiversity.

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Monoculture plantations are not effectively restoring biodiversity. To improve forest restoration policies, more innovative incentive policies are needed to focus on enhancing biodiversity rather than just increasing forest area.