The Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool: Meeting local practitioner needs and tracking progress toward global targets
Worthington, Thomas A.
- 1National University of Singapore
- 2University of Cambridge
- 3World Wildlife Fund
- 4Universidad Autonoma del Carmen
- 5Griffith University
- 6Universidade Federal da Bahia
- 7University of London Courtauld Institute of Art
- 8Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo
- 9WWF Mexico
- 10Smithsonian Institution
- 11Universite Libre de Bruxelles
- 12Int Union Conservat Nat IUCN
- 13University of New South Wales Sydney
- 14Mangrove Act Project
- 15CICESE
- 16Blue Ventures Conservat
- 17United Nations Environment Programme
- 18University of Queensland
- 19Marine Ecosyst Restorat MER Res & Consulting
- 20CINVESTAV - Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politecnico Nacional
- 21Wetlands Int
- 22Conservation International
- 23
- 24Annamalai University
- 25Conservat Int Pacific Isl Program
- 26Kenya Marine & Fisheries Res Inst
- 27Carretera Antigua Coatepec 351, Xalapa 91073, Veracruz, Mexico
- 28Nature Conservancy
- 29Talanoa Consulting
- 30Basque Centre for Climate Change (BC3)
- 31WWF Tanzania
- 32Fauna & Flora Int
- 33Minist Hlth Mozambique
- 34Wetlands Int Eastern Africa
- 35Nat Conservancy Mexico
- 36World Wide Fund Nat WWF
- 37Deakin University
- 38Fauna & Flora
- 39Louisiana State University System
- 40FHI360
- 41Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
- 42UN Environm Programme World Conservat Monitoring C
- 43Conservat Int Fiji Program
- 44National Research & Innovation Agency of Indonesia (BRIN)
- 45WWF Mozambique
- 46Landscapes & Livelihoods Grp
Journal
One Earth
ISSN
2590-3330
2590-3322
Open Access
hybrid
Volume
7
Start page
2072
End page
2085
Restoration is a key component of global and national efforts to combat ecosystem degradation, reduce biodiversity loss, and adapt to climate change, and there is currently an impetus to scale up restoration efforts. However, our ability to track progress toward restoration targets is limited by the lack of consistent and standardized data on objectives, interventions, and outcomes. To address this, a collaboration of conservation practitioners and scientists from around the world have developed the Mangrove Restoration Tracker Tool (MRTT), an application to record and track outcomes from mangrove restoration projects. The MRTT records information across the lifetime of a project, capturing data describing the site background and pre-restoration baseline and the restoration interventions and costs, as well as post-restoration monitoring that incorporates both socioeconomic and ecological factors. The MRTT allows decision makers, practitioners, and site managers to access information that is essential in making informed, evidence-based decisions on restoration interventions to maximize impact and success.