ecological restoration
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Young leaders from China and Europe test a shared vision for mountain bioeconomies
Young professionals and academics from China and Europe explored how mountain bioeconomies can connect biodiversity conservation with rural livelihoods, examining…
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Indonesia puts people and environment first in peatland restoration efforts
Renewed efforts must be made to rewet and revegetate peatlands throughout the Indonesian archipelago, according to participants at a recent…
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So long tumultuous teens: High hopes for forests in the 2020s
Throughout the last decade (2010-2019), tropical deforestation escalated at an alarming rate despite a raft of international commitments, including the…
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Why there’s more to ecological restoration than ecology
In August 2017 Paula Meli, a restoration ecologist and researcher at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, flew to…
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Colombia develops guidelines for biodiversity offsets
When a company builds a mine, dam, highway or other infrastructure, how can it compensate for, or ‘offset’, the loss…
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Finding what works for national restoration plans
Although only four Latin American countries have drawn up national plans so far to meet international commitments for forest restoration,…
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Ecological restoration, an unprecedented opportunity for nature and people
With governments around the globe making impressive commitments to restore degraded ecosystems, we frequently hear that the world is entering…
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Growing new energy
Siti Maimunah deftly steps out of a shallow canoe, stamps though the undergrowth and enters a cleared field, surveying the…
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It takes a village to re-raise a forest
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is the ongoing process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded…
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Q & A: Lessons from Ethiopia for forest landscape restoration
This interview is Part III of a three-part series on forest landscape restoration to coincide with the IUCN World Conservation…
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Q&A: Lessons from Latin America for forest landscape restoration
This interview is Part II of a three-part series on forest landscape restoration to coincide with the IUCN World Conservation…
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Regreening Ethiopia
Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is the ongoing process of regaining ecological functionality and enhancing human well-being across deforested or degraded…
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Q&A: Lessons from China for forest landscape restoration
This interview is Part 1 of a three-part series on forest landscape restoration to coincide with the IUCN World Conservation…
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