The Shouf Biosphere Reserve designed and implemented its own Forest Landscape Restoration Project, based on IUCN definition “the ongoing process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded forest landscapes. It is more than just planting trees – it is restoring a whole landscape to meet present and future needs and to offer multiple benefits and land uses over time. aiming at restoring cultural practices and developing new methods to improve the use of local raw materials in a sustainable way.”  This led to the production (with a full marketing plan) of briquettes, distributed to the local communities for heating, the production of compost  to find alternative sources of organic fertilizer for local farmers,  the restoration of abandoned stonewall terraces that act as firebreaks reducing the risk of fire spread, and providing access and water for fire-fighting, charcoal production, and grazing as a method of controlling re-sprouting.