A recipe for effective reforestation
Restoring degraded and deforested landscapes to ecological health is a massive challenge, but ambitious tree-planting initiatives, part of efforts to…
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The call of rewilding: Digital forum highlights biodiversity engine
After a 130-year absence, green-winged macaws have now returned to northeastern Argentina. Also joining them in Iberá National Park are…
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Let learning lead the way to strategic forest and landscape restoration
Combining the myriad theories and strategies on forest and landscape restoration into a successful recipe for implementation requires not only…
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Creative community-based policies in Bhutan reveal benefits of planted forests
An innovative community-based forest management policy has resolved a long-simmering land-use conflict between migratory yak herders and sedentary residents in…
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Q+A: Restore landscapes to cure planet, says author of ‘The Reindeer Chronicles’
On the cusp of the U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), the time is ripe to pause and ruminate, to…
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“Engagement landscape” concept takes shape in DRC’s Yangambi
Healing the heavily forested landscapes of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in the aftermath of devastating wars that ended…
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Indigenous communities: Respect for land steeped in traditions
Pace of environmental decline on Indigenous territories is slower despite mounting pressures.
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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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