Integrating Human Wellbeing Metrics into Ecosystem Restoration: Insights from multi-stakeholder dialogue

This report presents the outcomes of a multi-stakeholder Restoration Dialogue convened by BirdLife International and Trillion Trees in January 2026, bringing together 33 conservation practitioners, researchers, and policymakers from 21 organisations across seven countries. The workshop explored how ecosystem restoration initiatives can more effectively and equitably monitor their impacts on human wellbeing, and how such monitoring can improve restoration design and delivery of just outcomes. The Dialogue was novel in its explicit focus on integrating social and ecological dimensions through a collaborative, cross-sectoral process, bridging academic insight with practitioner experience to advance collective knowledge and guidance for ecosystem restoration.