Document Keyword: habitat restoration

This report contains a forecast of the economic, social, and environmental outcomes of a reforestation project in coastal Louisiana at the southern tip of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV). The Social Return on Investment (SROI) was commissioned by Restore the Earth Foundation (Restore the Earth), a non-governmental organization that aims to generate support from corporate donors to fund forest and wetland restoration efforts in the MAV. Restore the Earth has an initial focus on Louisiana coastal environments in the face of the state’s ongoing coastal land loss crisis (Couvillon et al 2011). This report looks at its reforestation of 4,000 acres of cypress trees on the Pointe-aux-Chenes Wildlife Management Area (Pointe-aux-Chenes, LA) as part of its future goal of restoring a million acres of the MAV.

This report contains a forecast of the economic, social, and environmental outcomes of a reforestation project in the central Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) in northeast Louisiana. This Social Return on Investment (SROI) assessment was commissioned by Restore the Earth Foundation (Restore the Earth), a non-governmental organization that aims to generate support from corporate donors to fund forest and wetland restoration efforts in the MAV. This report looks at the reforestation of 1,943 acres of bottomland hardwood forest planted through investments by Entergy Corporation in the Tensas National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in 2005. Although Entergy Corporation funded the on-the-ground costs of the reforestation project, this report was funded solely by Restore the Earth to provide an independent assessment of the social impacts of the project on key stakeholder groups.