Planted forests in Vietnam enhance ecosystem goods and services
Bouncing back from the impact of war involves not only rethinking and reshaping policies to repair social, cultural and economic…
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LED flashlights increase food insecurity risk in wild-meat dependent communities
Flashlights featuring light-emitting diodes (LED) have made it easier for subsistence hunters in tropical forests to capture animals at night
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Survey shows potential impact of palm trees in quantifying rainforest carbon
Palm trees are more than five times more numerous in such neotropical rainforests as the Amazon than in the large-scale…
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Forests can help reshape ‘dysfunctional’ global food system, scientists say
Although many modeling forecasts and government policies suggest that forests must be destroyed to make way for agriculture and provide…
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Q+A: Rollback of environmental protections continues during COVID-19 pandemic, expert says
As the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown limits civic participation, someofficials are dismantling ecosystem protections, an environmental governance expert has said. Rachel…
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Reflections on landscape challenges and opportunities in Kalomo
With our field work stalled by social unrest in Zambia and then the global COVID-19 pandemic, we decided to seize…
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Unlocking the power of entrepreneurship to promote local development in forest communities
Yangambi, located in northern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), was once a lush tropical forest landscape, home to bountiful wildlife…
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Trees: To plant or not to plant
Trees, glorious trees. Let’s plant a million, a billion, a trillion or more.Tree planting is growing into a global movement…
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Collaborative monitoring for effective forest landscape restoration
This story was originally published by the Society for Ecological Restoration in SERNewsAcross the globe, the degradation and destruction of…
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Reforestation could play role in pandemic recovery jobs creation, says IMF’s Georgieva
Policymakers in many European countries are saying that growth must be low carbon and climate resilient as they put forward…
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Are REDD+ donors learning quickly and deeply enough to make a difference?
To address urgent, complex and intertwined problems like climate change, deforestation and global inequality policymakers need to learn from various…
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Connecting the people growing a trillion trees the right way
Everyone is talking about trees. In January, the World Economic Forum founded the Trillion Trees initiative (1t.org), an effort to…
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