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					<title>Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/key-tree-species-boost-amazon-forest-restoration-new-study-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Sep 2026 18:55:08 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Fernanda Wenzel]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Global, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Biodiversity, Biology, Business, Carbon Credits, Carbon Market, Carbon Sequestration, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Climate Science, Conflict, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Culture, Drones, Earth Science, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environment, Finance, Forest Regeneration, Forestry, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Land Grabbing, Mitigation, Plants, Research, Resource Conflict, Restoration, Science, Secondary Forests, Solutions, Species, Sustainability, Sustainable Forest Management, Technology, Trees, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Regrowing Amazon forests face a quiet collapse if fast pioneer trees die without stronger successors.]]>
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							<![CDATA[A few tree species are key to restoring biodiversity and carbon storage in deforested areas of the Brazilian Amazon, suggests an article published in June in Global Change Biology. Researchers examined 102 plots under natural regeneration in four municipalities in Pará state — Bragantina, Marabá, Paragominas and Santarém — and concluded that a range of 15 to 25 species accounted for nearly half of the trees present and half of the plots’ carbon stocks. ​Among these species are the embaúba (Cecropia palmata), the tatapiririca (Tapirira guianensis), the ingá-vermelho (Inga alba), and the araticum-bravo (Annona exsucca). ​This relatively short list of hyperdominant species could “guide assisted restoration and enrichment strategies” in the Amazon, the researchers said, and help Brazil meet the goal of restoring 12 million hectares (30 million acres) of forests by 2030, an area roughly the size of North Korea. ​“These areas are already restoring [ecological] services and biodiversity,” Fernando Elias, a researcher in Pará&#8217;s Emílio Goeldi Museum and the coordinator of the study, told Mongabay. “That is why it is so important to understand how these forests behave.” According to Elias, the Brazilian Amazon has more than 140,000 square kilometers (around 57,000 square miles) of regrowing forests in areas previously deforested, known as secondary forests. In many cases, these lands have been abandoned after being used for cattle ranching. ​Most of it has the potential to recover naturally, without the need to plant a single seed. Close monitoring, however, is necessary to control fires, cattle ranching and land&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/09/key-tree-species-boost-amazon-forest-restoration-new-study-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Dark earth: Ancient Amazonian soil can boost forest restoration, study finds</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/dark-earth-ancient-amazonian-soil-can-boost-forest-restoration-study-finds/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Jul 2026 18:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Evanildo da Silveira]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Global, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Culture, Earth Science, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Recovery, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Fungi, Indigenous Peoples, Microorganisms, Rainforests, Research, Restoration, Science, Solutions, Sustainability, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Pink ipê trees grow taller and faster thanks to a microscopic boost from an ancestral formula.]]>
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							<![CDATA[Soil created centuries ago by Indigenous peoples in the Amazon could help speed up recovery of degraded lands, changing the way ecological restoration is approached in Brazil. A study conducted by researchers from the University of São Paulo’s Center for Nuclear Energy in Agriculture (CENA-USP), Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) Western Amazon, and the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) found that small amounts of Amazonian dark earth (ADE) significantly increased native tree growth under real field conditions. The results, published in January 2026 in the academic journal Springer Nature, caught experts’ attention especially regarding Handroanthus avellanedae, locally known as pink ipê, a species found in both the Amazon and the Atlantic Forest. After just 180 days, seedlings grown with modest amounts of ADE were up to 55% taller and 88% larger in stem diameter than those grown without the anthropogenic soil — that is, soil resulting from human action, the study found. Findings were also notable for paricá (Schizolobium amazonicum), another Amazonian species widely used in reforestation and also in the timber industry due to its fast growth. On average, they grew 20% more and had stems that were 15% larger in diameter. Professor Tsai Siu Mui, one of the study’s co-authors, stands between trees cultivated with Amazonian dark earth (left) and without that dark soil (right) after six months of experimentation. Image courtesy of Tsai Siu Mui. The study underscores the scientific potential of Amazonian dark earth, also known as “Indigenous dark earth.” It is an extremely fertile, organic-rich dark&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/dark-earth-ancient-amazonian-soil-can-boost-forest-restoration-study-finds/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Tony Parkes, the banker who replanted a rainforest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/tony-parkes-the-banker-who-replanted-a-rainforest/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Jun 2026 15:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder's briefs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Australia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Forest Recovery, Forest Regeneration, Landscape Restoration, Obituary, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[On the far north coast of New South Wales, the old rainforest had mostly disappeared. The Big Scrub once covered about 75,000 hectares of rich basalt country, a lowland subtropical forest of figs, vines, palms and fruit doves. By the time modern conservationists took stock of it, little more than one percent remained, divided among [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On the far north coast of New South Wales, the old rainforest had mostly disappeared. The Big Scrub once covered about 75,000 hectares of rich basalt country, a lowland subtropical forest of figs, vines, palms and fruit doves. By the time modern conservationists took stock of it, little more than one percent remained, divided among small patches on farms, roadsides and reserves. Weeds pressed in from the edges. Cattle and clearing had done the rest. What remained needed legal protection, science, money, landholders, seedlings and years of follow-through. It also needed someone who could make committees matter. Rainforest restoration can sound gentle, a matter of saplings and goodwill. In the Big Scrub it required persistence of a less decorative kind. Private landholders had to be brought in. Government agencies had to be pressed. Botanists, bush regenerators, nursery owners, donors and volunteers had to keep working together after the first enthusiasm had passed. The work was local, technical and repetitive. It suited Tony Parkes. Tony Parkes. Photo by Kim Honan / ABC North Coast He came to it late. Born in Hobart, he grew up close to bush and estuary. Later came science, business management and investment banking. He retired at 56 after a successful career in Sydney, and might have chosen a comfortable retirement. Instead he and his wife, Rowena, bought land in the Northern Rivers, learned the history of the Big Scrub and began planting rainforest on their own property. A private restoration project became a second public life.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/06/tony-parkes-the-banker-who-replanted-a-rainforest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-321143</doi>				</item>
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					<title>How quickly do tropical forests recover? Faster than expected, but slower than it seems</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/how-quickly-do-tropical-forests-recover-faster-than-expected-but-slower-than-it-seems/</link>
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					<pubDate>08 Apr 2026 19:44:41 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Founder's briefs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Recovery, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Landscape Restoration, Reforestation, Restoration, Species recovery, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A tropical forest can regrow quickly. What is harder to see is how long full ecological recovery takes. A pasture left to regenerate may, within a few decades, resemble a forest again. But resemblance can be misleading. Beneath the canopy, recovery proceeds at different rates across species, shaped by how species persist through disturbance and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A tropical forest can regrow quickly. What is harder to see is how long full ecological recovery takes. A pasture left to regenerate may, within a few decades, resemble a forest again. But resemblance can be misleading. Beneath the canopy, recovery proceeds at different rates across species, shaped by how species persist through disturbance and return afterward. A recent study of a lowland rainforest in Ecuador offers a detailed account of this process across a wide range of organisms. Drawing on data from 62 plots spanning active agriculture, secondary forest, and old-growth stands, the researchers examined how biodiversity recovers following land use. Their analysis extends beyond trees to animals and microbes, treating forests as systems of interaction rather than collections of species. The findings, published this week in Nature, point to a mixed picture. Secondary forests—those regrowing after clearance—now account for roughly 70% of tropical forest area. Their role in conservation has often been overlooked. The study finds that these landscapes can regain much of their biological richness within a few decades, provided they are allowed to recover. Measured in terms of abundance and species diversity, recovery is relatively fast. Many groups return to levels close to those found in old-growth forest within 30 years, and in some cases much sooner. Pollinators such as bees, along with birds and bats, show particularly rapid gains. These species move easily across fragmented landscapes, allowing them to recolonize regenerating areas early. Species composition changes more slowly. A forest may regain its numbers without&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/how-quickly-do-tropical-forests-recover-faster-than-expected-but-slower-than-it-seems/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-317141</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Brazil, planting forests for carbon credits could help ecosystem restoration</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/in-brazil-planting-forests-for-carbon-credits-could-help-ecosystem-restoration/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Jan 2026 11:12:52 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Constance Malleret]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[agroecology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agroecology, Agroforestry, Business, carbon, Carbon Credits, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Market, Carbon Offsets, Carbon Sequestration, climate finance, Community Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Forest Regeneration, Forestry, Green, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Rainforest Destruction, and Sustainable Forest Management]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Eunápolis, in the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia, the clearing of Atlantic Forest for agriculture started centuries ago, leaving a patchwork of cattle pastures, monocultures and degraded land. Between 11% and 25% of Brazil’s native vegetation is in a process of degradation related to deforestation, while 22% of its pasture is severely [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In Eunápolis, in the south of the Brazilian state of Bahia, the clearing of Atlantic Forest for agriculture started centuries ago, leaving a patchwork of cattle pastures, monocultures and degraded land. Between 11% and 25% of Brazil’s native vegetation is in a process of degradation related to deforestation, while 22% of its pasture is severely degraded. To reverse this, efforts are underway across the country to recover ecosystems and their services, a vital help in climate change mitigation. Since 2022, about 30 kilometers (19 miles) away from the city of Eunápolis, restoration efforts have been ongoing on the Ouro Verde farm to bring back Atlantic Forest species on hundreds of hectares of unproductive cattle pasture. Currently, 344 hectares (850 acres) of forest have been restored. “In two years, you’ve gone from degraded pasture, extremely damaged, sandy soil, to a forest with more than 60 species, trees more than 4 meters [13 feet] high. It looks like a forest,” said Miguel Moraes, director of projects at re.green, the Brazilian company behind the Ouro Verde project. Founded in 2021, re.green aims to restore 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of tropical forests across the Amazon and Atlantic Forest, while selling carbon credits and generating benefits beyond carbon capture. “We’d like to be a leader showing that there are different models of monetizing forests and natural ecosystems that don’t just generate benefits for the climate, but also for people and biodiversity,” Moraes told Mongabay in a video interview. Restored forest at re.green&#8217;s Ouro&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2026/01/in-brazil-planting-forests-for-carbon-credits-could-help-ecosystem-restoration/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-313254</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In California’s redwoods, scientists rebuild lost ecosystems high up in the canopy</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/in-californias-redwoods-scientists-rebuild-lost-ecosystems-high-up-in-the-canopy/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Dec 2025 14:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Marlowe Starling]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Sharon Guynup]]>
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							<![CDATA[California, North America, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[carbon, Conservation, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Recovery, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Logging, Old Growth Forests, Plants, Restoration, Sustainable Forest Management, Temperatures, Trees, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Van Eck Forest in northwestern California is home to iconic coast redwood trees, which store more above-ground carbon per acre than any other forest type. The oldest trees can grow to heights of more than 90 meters (300 feet) and may be more than 2,000 years old. But due to the region’s extensive logging, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Van Eck Forest in northwestern California is home to iconic coast redwood trees, which store more above-ground carbon per acre than any other forest type. The oldest trees can grow to heights of more than 90 meters (300 feet) and may be more than 2,000 years old. But due to the region’s extensive logging, which reduced old-growth redwood forests to just 5% of their original extent, very few large, old redwood trees (Sequoia sempervirens) exist today. Consequently, there are also fewer fern mats high up in the forest canopy: large masses of leather-leaf ferns (Polypodium scouleri), a keystone species that stores water, mitigates forest temperatures and provides habitat for other plants and animals. To help restore these historic forests, a conservation nonprofit and a university are experimenting with ways to transplant the mats back into redwood treetops. In a collaboration that began in 2021, the Pacific Forest Trust and scientists from California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, are taking fern mats that have fallen from old-growth trees and replanting them in younger trees to restore the canopy layer. As they grow over decades and centuries, these mats collect decomposing plant matter and germinate seeds, creating swaths of arboreal gardens that are home to salamanders, insects, birds and rare lichens. “It’s like having a little garden up there,” said Laurie Wayburn, co-founder and president of the Pacific Forest Trust. A great horned owl, a common redwood forest resident. Image by B. Washburn via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0). ‘Putting back the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/12/in-californias-redwoods-scientists-rebuild-lost-ecosystems-high-up-in-the-canopy/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-311969</doi>				</item>
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					<title>What might lie ahead for tropical forests (analysis)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/the-forests-future-tense-what-might-lie-ahead-for-the-tropics-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>02 Nov 2025 18:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Congo Basin, and Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Analysis, Artificial Intelligence, Climate Change, Commentary, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Regeneration, Forestry, Forests, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Restoration, Technology, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Heading into COP30, where tropical forests are set to be a central theme, it seemed worth attempting a thought experiment: to trace today’s trajectories a little further forward and imagine where they might lead. What follows are a series of scenarios—some improbable, others already taking shape. Part II In 2024, the tropics lost 6.7 million [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Heading into COP30, where tropical forests are set to be a central theme, it seemed worth attempting a thought experiment: to trace today’s trajectories a little further forward and imagine where they might lead. What follows are a series of scenarios—some improbable, others already taking shape. Part II In 2024, the tropics lost 6.7 million hectares of primary rainforest—an area the size of Panama, and nearly twice that of the year before. Fires were the main culprit for the first time on record. In Brazil, drought turned controlled burns into infernos; in Bolivia, policy incentives fanned the flames. Even the Congo, long a refuge, began to fray. Some say it might represent an inflection point. The data suggest less a turning point than problems long in motion and now gathering speed. The story, told in hectares and gigatons, is deceptively familiar: forest loss accelerates, restoration lags, and the 2030 pledge to halt deforestation recedes into fantasy. Yet behind the numbers, less visible forces are taking shape. The next phase of the forest crisis could be driven not only by chainsaws or cattle, but by feedback loops—ecological, economic, and technological—that we may not be well prepared to confront. Some are already visible; others may lie just beyond the horizon. Rainforest in Vietnam. Photo by Rhett Ayers Butler. The vanishing state Across the western Amazon, authority is slipping away. In Peru’s Madre de Dios, dredges hum along black-water rivers where the police no longer patrol. In Colombia’s Caquetá, armed groups extort miners&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/11/the-forests-future-tense-what-might-lie-ahead-for-the-tropics-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-308689</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Forest Declaration Assessment reveals a forest paradox</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/forest-declaration-assessment-reveals-a-forest-paradox/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/forest-declaration-assessment-reveals-a-forest-paradox/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>22 Oct 2025 23:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Founder's briefs]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Forest Recovery, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Green, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Reforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world’s forests tell two stories at once. Even as chainsaws advance, new trees are rising in their wake. More than 11 million hectares of tropical moist forest—an area roughly the size of Cuba—were in some stage of natural regrowth between 2015 and 2021, according to the Forest Declaration Assessment 2025. Latin America shows the most dramatic [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The world’s forests tell two stories at once. Even as chainsaws advance, new trees are rising in their wake. More than 11 million hectares of tropical moist forest—an area roughly the size of Cuba—were in some stage of natural regrowth between 2015 and 2021, according to the Forest Declaration Assessment 2025. Latin America shows the most dramatic increase, with regrowth up 750%, and tropical Asia not far behind at 450%. The forest, it seems, remembers how to heal. But this recovery story conceals a deeper contradiction. Deforestation has not slowed. The same assessment finds that in 2024 roughly 8.1 million hectares of forest were cleared worldwide—almost exactly the level seen at the decade’s start and 63% off track from the trajectory needed to reach the pledge of “zero deforestation by 2030.” “Global forests remain in crisis,” the report concludes, midway through what was meant to be the decisive decade. The paradox is simple: regeneration is rising because destruction continues. “Tropical forests wouldn’t be regrowing if they weren’t cleared in the first place,” explained Erin Matson, the assessment’s lead author. “An increase in regrowth is often correlated to an increase in loss.” Fires, drought, and agricultural expansion keep pushing the boundary between life and ash. Each flare-up opens space for new shoots, even as it drains the ecosystem’s ability to recover. Nowhere is this clearer than in the Amazon. During the 2023-24 El Niño, nearly 150,000 forest fires were recorded each month of the dry season—seven times more than in any previous El Niño. NASA’s&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/10/forest-declaration-assessment-reveals-a-forest-paradox/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Brazil&#8217;s market-based forest fund gets new endorsers ahead of COP30 debut</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/brazils-market-based-forest-fund-gets-new-endorsers-ahead-of-cop30-debut/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/brazils-market-based-forest-fund-gets-new-endorsers-ahead-of-cop30-debut/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>10 Sep 2025 14:50:35 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Lucas Berti]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Atlantic Forest, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, climate finance, Conservation, Conservation Finance, Deforestation, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Finance, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Funding, Indigenous Peoples, Payments For Ecosystem Services, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil is betting big on future rewards to save tropical forest, but critics fear nature will receive a “price tag.”]]>
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							<![CDATA[Since 2023, Brazil has been pushing a new idea to finance the conservation of global tropical forests: Instead of directly donating money to Indigenous and conservation groups, nations and investors would add billions of dollars to a fund, the profits of which would revert to the countries that are doing a good job of keeping forests standing. The initiative — initially called the Tropical Forest Funds Forever and now rebranded as Tropical Forest Finance Facility (TFFF either way) — was presented at the COP28 climate summit, held in Dubai in 2023, with the goal of turning it into reality at COP30, to be held in Belém, Brazil, this November. Even though it received positive feedback overall, doubts remained about whether TFFF could lock in the initial required amount of $25 billion needed for its launch and reach the $125 billion to operate as designed. In recent months, however, Brazilian diplomats have been making progress. In late August, nations of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (ACTO) endorsed TFFF during a meeting in Colombia’s capital, Bogotá. The joint statement presented a chapter supporting and welcoming the initiative. It also encouraged “potential investor countries, multilateral organizations, development banks, climate funds, international cooperation agencies, philanthropy, and the private sector to announce ambitious and concrete contributions to the capitalization of the TFFF, in order to ensure its prompt operationalization.” Brazil had already secured support from Norway, the U.K., Germany, the U.S., the UAE and France, as well as several nations with tropical forests, such as&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/brazils-market-based-forest-fund-gets-new-endorsers-ahead-of-cop30-debut/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-305705</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New study pinpoints tree-planting hotspots for climate and biodiversity gains</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/new-study-pinpoints-tree-planting-hotspots-for-climate-and-biodiversity-gains/</link>
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					<pubDate>03 Sep 2025 15:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Marina Martinez]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Forest Restoration Solutions]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Central America, Global, and Panama]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Climate, Climate Change, Conservation, data, Ecosystem Services, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Fossil Fuels, Land Use Change, Mapping, Plants, Reforestation, Restoration, Trees, and Water]]>
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							<![CDATA[Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but scientists warn that planting trees indiscriminately isn’t effective. Its success depends on how and, crucially, where it’s done. A new study in Nature Communications, co-authored by scientists from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and other institutions, seeks to advance global reforestation efforts by mapping the locations [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but scientists warn that planting trees indiscriminately isn’t effective. Its success depends on how and, crucially, where it’s done. A new study in Nature Communications, co-authored by scientists from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and other institutions, seeks to advance global reforestation efforts by mapping the locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits. The authors compiled their findings into a web-based tool called the Reforestation Hub. “Reforestation is a readily-available, scalable, cost-effective carbon removal solution, but we have neither time nor resources to restore trees everywhere,” said study co-author Susan Cook-Patton, lead reforestation scientist at TNC. “Our goal with this research was to help accelerate action by highlighting the places where reforestation holds the greatest promise for people, nature, and climate,” she added in an email interview that Mongabay conducted with the TNC team. Burning within Tesso Nilo National Park in Indonesia. Image by Rhett A. Butler/Mongabay. Their research builds on previous maps of tree cover restoration potential, refining them by excluding areas where planting trees could do more harm than good, such as non-forested and fire-prone grasslands and savannas. Kurt Fesenmyer, the study lead author and TNC’s forest spatial data scientist, said earlier maps have been critiqued for three main reasons: how they defined “forest”; the data quality; and the lack of safeguards to ensure positive outcomes for people and the environment. “In developing our new map, we sought to address&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/09/new-study-pinpoints-tree-planting-hotspots-for-climate-and-biodiversity-gains/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-305279</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Diverse forests and forest rewilding offer resilience against climate change</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/diverse-forests-and-forest-rewilding-offer-resilience-against-climate-change/</link>
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					<pubDate>15 Apr 2025 18:49:37 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sean Mowbray]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Forest Restoration Solutions]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Asia, Central America, China, Global, Panama, and Tropics]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation, Adaptation To Climate Change, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Extinction, Extreme Weather, Forest Regeneration, Forestry, Forests, Impact Of Climate Change, Rainforests, Research, Rewilding, Temperatures, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[When it comes to reforestation, planting a diversity of tree species could have a plethora of positive effects on forest health and resilience, climate mitigation and biodiversity. That’s based on research from the world’s largest tree-planting experiment, in China, and one of the world’s longest-running tropical forest planting experiments, in Panama. Florian Schnabel, lecturer and [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When it comes to reforestation, planting a diversity of tree species could have a plethora of positive effects on forest health and resilience, climate mitigation and biodiversity. That’s based on research from the world’s largest tree-planting experiment, in China, and one of the world’s longest-running tropical forest planting experiments, in Panama. Florian Schnabel, lecturer and chair of silviculture at Freiburg University in Germany, and his team recently published two papers illustrating how planting diverse forests can buffer them against climate extremes and enhance carbon storage. “The results of our research in Panama and in China really call for preserving and also planting diverse forests as a strategy under climate change,” he says. Researchers with the BEF-China project planted multiple forests, ranging from just one tree species up to 24, then measured microclimate temperatures over six years. They found that the more diverse the forest, the greater the “temperature buffering” effect during hot and cold peaks. The most diverse plantings, those with 24 species, reduced temperatures during peak midday summer heat by 4.4° Celsius (7.92° Fahrenheit) when compared to the project’s monoculture. That finding could have important consequences for biodiversity and forest functions, such as soil respiration, says Schnabel. “What was quite striking to me was how strong this [temperature buffering] effect actually was.” While the paper’s findings are not groundbreaking, says Karen Holl, a professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz, the study effectively demonstrates the benefits of diverse tree species. “People are making arguments for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/04/diverse-forests-and-forest-rewilding-offer-resilience-against-climate-change/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Lake Chad isn’t shrinking — but climate change is causing other problems</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/lake-chad-isnt-shrinking-but-climate-change-is-causing-other-problems/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Feb 2025 22:51:40 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ruth Kamnitzer]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<reporting-project>
							<![CDATA[Regenerative landscapes]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Cameroon, Central Africa, Chad, Niger, Nigeria, and West Africa]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Agriculture, Climate, Climate Change, Conflict, Desertification, Deserts, Drought, Environment, Fishing, Flooding, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Gender, Global Warming, Grasslands, Green, Lakes, Land Conflict, Reforestation, Social Conflict, Trees, Tropical Forests, Water, and Wetlands]]>
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							<![CDATA[The communities around Lake Chad have always lived by its water rhythms. Now, as climate change impacts intensify, they must find new ways to adapt. The Lake Chad Basin lies in the Sahel, on the southern edge of the Sahara. The basin is enormous, covering 2.5 million square kilometers (965,255 square miles), or 8% of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The communities around Lake Chad have always lived by its water rhythms. Now, as climate change impacts intensify, they must find new ways to adapt. The Lake Chad Basin lies in the Sahel, on the southern edge of the Sahara. The basin is enormous, covering 2.5 million square kilometers (965,255 square miles), or 8% of the African continent, straddling eight countries. Lake Chad sits at the end point of this drainage basin, an unexpected bounty of water in a dry land. An estimated 3 million people live near the lake, and 49 million more live in the basin and depend on its resources. The amount of water in Lake Chad is closely linked to climate as it’s in a closed drainage system, with rivers leading into, but not out of, the lake. The volume of water going into the lake — via the Chari, Logone and other rivers — largely depends on the amount of rain in the catchment area. As the lake is wide and shallow, currently averaging less than 3 meters (9.8 feet) in depth, changes in rainfall have a dramatic effect on its size. The lake swells and recedes seasonally and between years. But the most dramatic changes happen over decades. Lake Chad straddles four countries: Chad, Nigeria, Niger and Cameroon. Image captured Dec. 2024 by Planet Labs. In the 1960s, Lake Chad’s waters covered 25,000 km2 (9,653 mi2), making it the sixth-largest lake in the world. Then, in the 1970s and ‘80s, as drought gripped the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/lake-chad-isnt-shrinking-but-climate-change-is-causing-other-problems/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>An Ecuadorian hotspot shows how forests can claw back from destruction</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-ecuadorian-hotspot-shows-how-forests-can-claw-back-from-destruction/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Feb 2025 15:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Ruth Kamnitzer]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Forest Restoration Solutions]]>
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							<![CDATA[Ecuador, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Biodiversity Hotspots, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Destruction, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Private Reserves, Protected Areas, Research, Restoration, Solutions, Tropical Forests, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and woody giants with epiphyte-laden crowns come back; do the pollinators, seed dispersers and entangled webs of predator and prey return? And how, exactly, does it happen? A new ambitious research project is trying [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Can a tropical forest mend itself? After trees are cut down and wildlife flees, do microbes on the dank, leafy floor and woody giants with epiphyte-laden crowns come back; do the pollinators, seed dispersers and entangled webs of predator and prey return? And how, exactly, does it happen? A new ambitious research project is trying to find out. Based out of the 15,000-hectare (37,000 acre) Canandé Reserve in Ecuador’s Chocó Forest, the aptly named Reassembly Research Unit is documenting how the forest recovers after clearing. The results, by a joint German and Ecuadorian team, so far indicate that many species assemblages return within a few decades, though the full forest community, including mature trees, takes longer to reestablish. These answers shed light on intricate ecosystem processes. They are also of immense conservation value, potentially in the tropics worldwide. “Unfortunately, most of the tropical forests are becoming secondary forest, especially in this part of the tropics,” says María-José Endara, a researcher with Reassembly and associate professor of ecology at the University of the Americas in Quito. “If we want to keep having a forest, then we have to be prepared to let this forest regenerate. And we need the knowledge and the understanding of how this process will go.” The lush forests of the Ecuadorian Chocó. Image courtesy of Reassembly. Ecuador’s Chocó The Chocó ecoregion is astounding, one of the 10 most biodiverse spots on Earth. Lying west of the Andes, it stretches through Panama, Colombia and Ecuador, covering a huge&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/an-ecuadorian-hotspot-shows-how-forests-can-claw-back-from-destruction/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>How ‘country palm’ could help pave the way toward a sustainable palm oil future in Liberia</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/how-country-palm-could-help-pave-the-way-toward-a-sustainable-palm-oil-future-in-liberia/</link>
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					<pubDate>18 Feb 2025 23:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Louise Hunt]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Morgan Erickson-Davis]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Regenerative landscapes]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Africa, Liberia, and West Africa]]>
						</locations>
					
											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Agroforestry, Birds, Commodity agriculture, Endangered Species, Environment, Forest Loss, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Green, Habitat Loss, Industrial Agriculture, Palm Oil, Pangolins, Parrots, Plantations, Rainforests, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis tree is native to West Africa and treasured by local communities. “In the rural areas where there are palms in the wild, if you want to farm in those areas people will say to you, ‘Do not cut [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Across southeastern Liberia, oil palms grow wild in the forest. Known as “country palm,” the Elaeis guineensis tree is native to West Africa and treasured by local communities. “In the rural areas where there are palms in the wild, if you want to farm in those areas people will say to you, ‘Do not cut down the palm trees!’” says James Otto, program coordinator at the Sustainable Development Institute, an environmental and community rights NGO based in Liberia. “The palm is usable by everybody, it’s not one person to a palm tree.” Harvesting the fruit is traditionally a communal effort, and it’s manually processed into cooking oil and butter that’s then used in almost every dish, along with multiple other household and medicinal purposes. Selling products made from country palm at the local market has long been a source of income for subsistence farmers. “I remember my grandfather doing that,” Otto says. “But it is not only for livelihood purposes, it has a serious tie with our culture, with our way of life.” A woman with country palm fruit that she has harvested. Image by Michael Pashkevich. He cites the example of traditional leaders visiting from other parts of Liberia where there was no wild palm to obtain and bring back seeds, “so they would germinate in their own land areas, so it’s a key tradition for the people of Liberia.” Wild oil palm is not only beneficial for communities, but for birds and mammals too; it’s native to one&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2025/02/how-country-palm-could-help-pave-the-way-toward-a-sustainable-palm-oil-future-in-liberia/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Startups replace plastics with mushrooms in the seafood industry</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/startups-replace-plastics-with-mushrooms-in-the-seafood-industry/</link>
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					<pubDate>29 Oct 2024 08:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Claire Turrell]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rebecca Kessler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Aquaculture, Business, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Conservation Technology, Environment, Fisheries, Fishing, Food Industry, Forest Regeneration, Fungi, Global Environmental Crisis, Natural Resources, Oceans, Plastic, Pollution, Research, Solutions, Waste, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mycologists believe the solution to some of our biggest pollution issues is under our feet. Humble fungi are now being used as meat alternatives, eco-friendly leather and to help break down waste such as plastics. While a new industry, the market for mycelium, the root-like structure of fungi, is forecast to reach $6.5 billion by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mycologists believe the solution to some of our biggest pollution issues is under our feet. Humble fungi are now being used as meat alternatives, eco-friendly leather and to help break down waste such as plastics. While a new industry, the market for mycelium, the root-like structure of fungi, is forecast to reach $6.5 billion by 2032. Now nascent startups are using it to help curb pollution from the seafood industry. The solutions created by these startups are timely. South Korea has banned marine buoys made with Styrofoam from 2025, and MPs in Canada are calling for a similar ban. The European Union has stated that in 2025, manufacturers will be responsible for the end life of fishing gear. And the United Nations is expected to release a global treaty to curb plastic pollution by the end of 2024, adding more pressure. Plastic foam can break down into microplastics, which marine wildlife commonly mistake for food to the detriment of their health. Research shows seafood consumption is one way humans can be exposed to microplastics. Fishing gear accounts for a major portion of the plastic polluting the ocean: 10% globally, but up to 100% in certain places, according to a recent overview study. In 2022, mycologist Sue Van Hook launched MycoBuoys in Maine, U.S., a startup aiming to reduce the sea’s plastic burden by turning mushrooms into buoys for the aquaculture industry. Van Hook discovered that mycelia could float while at New York-state based Ecovative, one of the biggest innovators in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/10/startups-replace-plastics-with-mushrooms-in-the-seafood-industry/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-289274</doi>				</item>
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					<title>To save endangered trees, researchers in South America recruit an army of fungi</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/to-save-endangered-trees-researchers-in-south-america-recruit-an-army-of-fungi/</link>
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					<pubDate>12 Sep 2024 12:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Sofia Moutinho]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Colombia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Forest Loss, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Fungi, Plants, Protected Areas, Research, Restoration, Solutions, Symbiotic Relationships, Trees, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s a sunny July day during an otherwise exceptionally rainy season in the lush green mountains of Huila, in Colombia’s eastern Andes. Adriana Corrales, her assistant and a local guide climb through the dense cloud forest. Above them, birds sing and monkeys howl through the canopy of ancient Colombian black oaks (Trigonobalanus excelsa), an endangered [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s a sunny July day during an otherwise exceptionally rainy season in the lush green mountains of Huila, in Colombia’s eastern Andes. Adriana Corrales, her assistant and a local guide climb through the dense cloud forest. Above them, birds sing and monkeys howl through the canopy of ancient Colombian black oaks (Trigonobalanus excelsa), an endangered tree species. But the researchers keep their eyes on the ground. “All this forest above us, and we are here looking down,” says Corrales, a fungi ecologist and expedition leader at the Society for the Protection of Underground Networks (SPUN), a nonprofit research organization mapping fungi worldwide. For the last two years, the group has been searching in Colombia’s black oak forests for mycorrhizae, a type of fungi that establishes a unique symbiosis with plants that’s fundamental to keeping forests alive. Most plants worldwide are associated with these fungi. Mycorrhizae grow around roots, forming vast networks of thin, cotton-like filaments that extend into the lower soil levels and reach the litter fall. Through this system, the fungi can break down organic matter, such as dry leaves, and even mine minerals in rocks and deliver water and essential nutrients directly to plants’ roots. In return, the roots provide the fungi with sugars, essential for their survival. The high-altitude cloud forests of Huila, cut down to open space for coffee farms, used to be covered by black oak trees. Image by Sofia Moutinho for Mongabay. “The fungi form a microbiome on the plant&#8217;s roots in the same&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/to-save-endangered-trees-researchers-in-south-america-recruit-an-army-of-fungi/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-287338</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Venezuela, natural regeneration helps restore a threatened cloud forest</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/in-venezuela-natural-regeneration-helps-restore-a-threatened-cloud-forest/</link>
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					<pubDate>10 Sep 2024 10:47:29 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[María Fernanda Rodríguez]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[global forests]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Latin America, South America, and Venezuela]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Birds, Cloud Forests, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Endangered Species, Environment, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Protected Areas, and Restoration]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#8220;And this big one?&#8221; Ancelmo Dugarte asks his 3-year-old son, Marco Antonio, pointing to a towering pine in front of them. &#8220;Pino laso,&#8221; the little voice replies. &#8220;And this one? What&#8217;s this called?&#8221; Dugarte asks again, now touching the leaf of a plant. &#8220;Laurel baboso,&#8221; Marco Antonio answers. His father repeats it once more, as [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[&#8220;And this big one?&#8221; Ancelmo Dugarte asks his 3-year-old son, Marco Antonio, pointing to a towering pine in front of them. &#8220;Pino laso,&#8221; the little voice replies. &#8220;And this one? What&#8217;s this called?&#8221; Dugarte asks again, now touching the leaf of a plant. &#8220;Laurel baboso,&#8221; Marco Antonio answers. His father repeats it once more, as part of his mission to teach his son all the dozens of native plant species close to his home. This conversation between Dugarte and his son took place in 2019 amid the cloud forest of El Tambor, located in the Sierra de La Culata National Park, in Mérida, Venezuela. They live in San Eusebio, a town close to the cloud forest, where Dugarte volunteers with the El Tambor Project, created in 2018 in order to help restore the forest with native plants with community participation. Over the past four years, El Tambor Project has successfully produced more than 15,000 plants belonging to nearly 50 native tree species, primarily from families such as Myrtaceae, Lauraceae, Podocarpaceae and Melastomataceae. This project seeks to restore approximately 22,000 hectares (54,300 acres) of cloud forest. A biodiversity hotspot, this area hosts more than 200 species of birds, 50 species of mammals, 153 species of orchids and 150 species of bromeliads. El Tambor Project is made up of seven people but they also count on the volunteer work of dozens of people who live in the communities near the cloud forest. Image courtesy of El Tambor Project. Since 2012, Ana Quevedo&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/in-venezuela-natural-regeneration-helps-restore-a-threatened-cloud-forest/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-287190</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Reforestation of Indonesia’s new capital city stumped by haphazard planting</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/reforestation-of-indonesias-new-capital-city-stumped-by-haphazard-planting/</link>
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					<pubDate>13 Feb 2024 14:05:33 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, East Kalimantan, Indonesia, Kalimantan, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, Degraded Lands, Ecosystems, Environment, forest degradation, Forest Loss, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Industry, Landscape Restoration, Politics, Rainforests, Reforestation, Rehabilitation, Restoration, Trees, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[BALIKPAPAN, East Kalimantan — Planners building Indonesia’s new capital city in eastern Borneo say they’re far from their target of reforesting the site that the country’s president has projected will be a “green forest city” that the government plans to inaugurate later this year. Among the main obstacles: a tree-planting program that caters more to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[BALIKPAPAN, East Kalimantan — Planners building Indonesia’s new capital city in eastern Borneo say they’re far from their target of reforesting the site that the country’s president has projected will be a “green forest city” that the government plans to inaugurate later this year. Among the main obstacles: a tree-planting program that caters more to the convenience of bureaucrats than the local ecology; a preference for nonnative tree species unsuited to the region; and a general lack of planning and coordination that’s resulted in some reforested areas being razed again for construction. The new capital, known as Nusantara, sits on former mining and logging concessions in the province of East Kalimantan, with much of the landscape today barren or degraded. President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo has said he envisions the new capital being surrounded by biodiverse tropical rainforest with a rich variety of tree species, rather than the monoculture plantations that blanket the region. “The concept of Nusantara is a forest city, which means this area has to be green, the environment here has to be green, and lastly, the buildings here have to be green as well,” the president said during a visit to the project site on Dec. 20, 2023. Since late 2022, the Ministry of Environment and Forestry has reforested 1,441 hectares (3,560 acres) of the Nusantara site. That’s less than a tenth of the government’s 82,891-hectare (204,828-acre) reforestation target — an area larger than Jakarta or New York City — according to the OIKN, the government agency&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2024/02/reforestation-of-indonesias-new-capital-city-stumped-by-haphazard-planting/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Report alleges APP continues deforestation 10 years after pledge to stop</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/report-alleges-app-continues-deforestation-10-years-after-pledge-to-stop/</link>
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					<pubDate>31 Oct 2023 05:42:14 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Hans Nicholas Jong]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Karen Coates]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Indonesia, Jambi, Kalimantan, Riau, Southeast Asia, and Sumatra]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Business, Certification, Conflict, Conservation, Corporate Environmental Transgressors, Corporations, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Fires, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Habitat, Habitat Loss, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Peatlands, Plantations, Protected Areas, Pulp And Paper, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Rehabilitation, Restoration, Social Conflict, Sustainability, Sustainable Forest Management, Tropical Deforestation, Tropical Forests, and Zero Deforestation Commitments]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A decade after Asia Pulp &#38; Paper (APP), one of the world’s biggest paper producers, launched its landmark no-deforestation policy, the company continues to clear forests to feed its mills and drain and develop peatlands, a clear breach of the policy, a new report alleges. APP has a long history of deforestation, with [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[JAKARTA — A decade after Asia Pulp &amp; Paper (APP), one of the world’s biggest paper producers, launched its landmark no-deforestation policy, the company continues to clear forests to feed its mills and drain and develop peatlands, a clear breach of the policy, a new report alleges. APP has a long history of deforestation, with an estimated 2 million hectares (4.9 million acres) — an area the size of Wales — of natural forest having been cleared in the three decades preceding 2010 for conversion into pulpwood plantations in two provinces alone, Riau and Jambi. Following widespread criticism of its role in driving deforestation and contributing to social conflicts, APP launched in February 2013 its Forest Conservation Policy (FCP), in which it pledged to not destroy natural forests for its pulpwood plantations. Under its FCP pledge, the pulp giant vowed to exclude timber sourced from the clearing of peatlands and rainforests as well as to reduce social conflict and seek free, prior and informed consent from communities when establishing new plantations. The policy was meant to apply to all APP operations and those of its suppliers, beginning in February 2013. Greenpeace, which helped forge APP’s policy, called the pledge “a game-changer” for the tropical pulp and paper sector as it was the biggest and most comprehensive corporate promise to end deforestation and peatland destruction by any company at the time. Furthermore, APP is one of the world’s largest pulp and paper manufacturers that supplies pulp and paper products like paper tissue, packaging&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/10/report-alleges-app-continues-deforestation-10-years-after-pledge-to-stop/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>From debt to diversity: A journey of rewilding, carbon capture and hope</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/from-debt-to-diversity-a-journey-of-rewilding-carbon-capture-and-hope/</link>
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					<pubDate>09 Aug 2023 15:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Fitt]]>
						</dc:creator>
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						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Regenerative landscapes]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Agroecology, Animals, Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystem Engineers, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Regeneration, Forestry, Forests, Happy-upbeat Environmental, Landscape Restoration, Mammals, Reintroductions, Restoration, Rewilding, Solutions, Wildlife, Wildlife Corridors, and Wildlife Rehabilitation]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s the sort of June day that British summers should be made of, but rarely are. Pink flower-flecked brambles proliferate in knurled mounds, scattered across 3,500 sun-soaked acres of West Sussex scrubland audibly humming with bees. Curvy-horned cows chew rhythmically under shady old oaks among billowing stands of pussywillow and hawthorn. The birdsong is unreal. [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[It’s the sort of June day that British summers should be made of, but rarely are. Pink flower-flecked brambles proliferate in knurled mounds, scattered across 3,500 sun-soaked acres of West Sussex scrubland audibly humming with bees. Curvy-horned cows chew rhythmically under shady old oaks among billowing stands of pussywillow and hawthorn. The birdsong is unreal. A thrush sends liquid top notes out across air punctuated by the raucous melody of a feathered orchestra. And above it all, a stork wheels. If it weren’t for the plastic tags in the cows’ ears and the overhead drone of occasional passenger planes, we could be 600 years ago. That’s about the last time storks nested wild in England, Isabella Tree told me. A writer, farmer and owner of the Knepp Estate, Tree strides across this magnificently disheveled landscape crafted by herself and her husband, Charles Burrell. Rewind 23 years and this place was a debt-ridden, subsidy-dependent farm, its already poor soil made worse by intensive agricultural practices. There were certainly no storks. Old English longhorns resting under an oak tree at Knepp. Disturbance from large herbivores has restored this landscape by reactivating natural processes that foster healthy ecology. Image by Elizabeth Fitt for Mongabay. But Tree and Burrell have helped nature reestablish its course at Knepp since then, in a process known as rewilding. Reintroducing white storks (Ciconia ciconia) is merely the icing on the cake. Fencing has been ripped down, large mammals introduced, drains smashed, even a river rewiggled. Reintroduced beavers have&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/08/from-debt-to-diversity-a-journey-of-rewilding-carbon-capture-and-hope/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-271891</doi>				</item>
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					<title>What’s in store for Colombia’s forests? New modeling tries to predict.</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/whats-in-store-for-colombias-forests-new-modeling-tries-to-predict/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jun 2023 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Maxwell Radwin]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
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							<![CDATA[Colombia, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forest Destruction, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Politics, Protected Areas, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Reforestation, Research, Restoration, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Colombia has nearly 60 million hectares (147.5 million acres) of natural forest covering over half its territory, much of it in the Amazon basin. As a “megadiverse” country, possessing around 10% of the world’s biodiversity, the stakes are high for the deforestation policies it’s employing to combat climate change. Between 2000 and 2020, the country [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Colombia has nearly 60 million hectares (147.5 million acres) of natural forest covering over half its territory, much of it in the Amazon basin. As a “megadiverse” country, possessing around 10% of the world’s biodiversity, the stakes are high for the deforestation policies it’s employing to combat climate change. Between 2000 and 2020, the country lost nearly 5 million hectares (12.3 million acres) of forest to cattle ranching and agricultural activity, according to Global Forest Watch, a satellite mapping initiative. Some of those years, those factors contributed to around half of all forest loss in the country. President Gustavo Petro came into office last year promising to slow deforestation rates and grant more land to Indigenous communities. He has a handful of climate change laws and national action plans at his disposal but implementation has been tricky, so it’s still unclear what’s going to play out with Colombia’s forests in years to come. In an attempt to chart some future outcomes, the Food, Agriculture, Biodiversity, Land-Use, and Energy (FABLE) consortium looked at three different directions the country could take with its current policies. One was more passive, while the others were more hands-on and creative. All of them relied on evolving agriculture, forestry and bioenergy trends, represented by a model known as GLOBIOM-Colombia. In all of the outcomes it became clear that Colombia will need a more consistent and innovative approach to deforestation to meet many of its conservation goals, the report said. It will also need to come up&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/whats-in-store-for-colombias-forests-new-modeling-tries-to-predict/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-270250</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Rare Amazon dark soils could help forest restoration, study shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/rare-amazon-dark-soils-could-help-forest-restoration-study-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Jun 2023 13:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Juliana Ennes]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Plantations, Rainforests, Reforestation, Research, Saving Rainforests, Soil Carbon, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beneath the luxurious foliage and the majestic trees of the Amazon Rainforest lies a counterintuitive reality: a mostly infertile soil that becomes swiftly depleted once its plant coverage is stripped away. Cattle ranchers and farmers searching for arable land continually encroach upon the forest, only to find the soil exhausted within a few years. This [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Beneath the luxurious foliage and the majestic trees of the Amazon Rainforest lies a counterintuitive reality: a mostly infertile soil that becomes swiftly depleted once its plant coverage is stripped away. Cattle ranchers and farmers searching for arable land continually encroach upon the forest, only to find the soil exhausted within a few years. This drives the intrusion into new, pristine swaths of forest, perpetuating deforestation cycles. This grim picture could change in the next few years. Researchers from the University of São Paulo, in partnership with the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) and the National Institute of Amazonian Research (INPA) have found that Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs), a unique and somewhat rare type of soil, could help in the recovery of pastures and of the forest itself due to the soil’s high nutrient and microbiological contents. Their study, published in Frontiers in Soil Science, showed that ADEs could promote the development of trees used in ecological restoration projects. Detail of an aspect of the dark soil sampled in Amazonas state for the experiment. Image by Luís Felipe Guandalin Zagatto. The dark soil used in the experiment can only be found in a few spots in the Amazon, usually covering 2-5 hectares (4.94-12.35 acres) and located close to rivers and to places that have previously seen some human activity. Some theories regarding the origin of ADEs, also called terra preta, include the existence of large sedentary pre-Columbian societies that improved, intentionally or not, the fertility of the soil with ashes,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/rare-amazon-dark-soils-could-help-forest-restoration-study-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-269759</doi>				</item>
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					<title>U.S. conservation investment routed to eucalyptus expansion in Brazil’s Cerrado</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/u-s-conservation-investment-routed-to-eucalyptus-expansion-in-brazils-cerrado/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Jun 2023 17:17:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Shanna Hanbury]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, carbon, Cattle, Conservation, Deforestation, Drivers Of Deforestation, Finance, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Mongabay Data Studio, Pasture, Plantations, Ranching, and Reforestation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mark Wishnie felt pleased when he heard the news: Joe Biden announced his support of a $50 million debt investment for the timber farmland project he heads at Latin America’s largest investment bank. The U.S. president’s April 20 speech at the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate boosted a $1 billion financing campaign by [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Mark Wishnie felt pleased when he heard the news: Joe Biden announced his support of a $50 million debt investment for the timber farmland project he heads at Latin America’s largest investment bank. The U.S. president’s April 20 speech at the Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate boosted a $1 billion financing campaign by the Timberland Investment Group (TIG), a $5.6 billion subsidiary of BTG Pactual that buys up large swaths of land to grow and chop trees as an investment portfolio. Biden promised funds from the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation to conserve the Amazon and other critical Latin American biomes. Congress has yet to approve the funds. But if it passes, the debt investment will largely be funnelled into mass-produced eucalyptus in Brazil’s Cerrado savanna, Mongabay found. “The announcement was very helpful in highlighting the role of well-managed working forests in helping to deliver climate benefits,” Wishnie, chief sustainability officer at TIG, told Mongabay in a video interview. The investment bank boasts carbon absorption by trees, but critics say the pulpwood industry’s aggressive expansion is polluting the air and water, drying the land, reducing biodiversity and uprooting communities. Also, once the trees are felled and turned to pulp, carbon is released again. A target of 300,000 hectares (741,300 acres) of Cerrado land, the company told Mongabay, would be transformed into mostly commercial eucalyptus and pine tree farms. Half the land would be left for natural savanna regeneration, surpassing the legal requirement of 20%. The projected jump from&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/06/u-s-conservation-investment-routed-to-eucalyptus-expansion-in-brazils-cerrado/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>New research finds slow forest recovery in the Andes — and ways to improve</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/new-research-finds-slow-forest-recovery-in-the-andes-and-ways-to-improve/</link>
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					<pubDate>16 May 2023 12:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Mark Hillsdon]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/05/16092821/rhett2-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
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							<![CDATA[Andes, Latin America, and South America]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Biodiversity, Conservation, Deforestation, forest degradation, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Protected Areas, Research, Restoration, and Tropical Forests]]>
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											<description>
							<![CDATA[Degraded by human activity, mountain forests across the tropical Andes are having a hard time bouncing back. But while scientists have long analyzed what drives their decline, they have largely understudied how these ecosystems, some of the world’s most biodiverse, behave after disruption. But a better insight into forest recovery pathways could help governments in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Degraded by human activity, mountain forests across the tropical Andes are having a hard time bouncing back. But while scientists have long analyzed what drives their decline, they have largely understudied how these ecosystems, some of the world’s most biodiverse, behave after disruption. But a better insight into forest recovery pathways could help governments in the region direct restoration efforts where they are most needed, a new study suggests. “The Andes haven&#8217;t received the attention that a lot of the other key biodiversity hotspots have,” says Tina Christmann, environmental scientist at the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford and lead author of the study. Exploited for centuries, mountain forests in the tropical Andes have become increasingly threatened, as deforestation for land conversion, wildfires and climate change have accelerated degradation over the last decades. According to the study, between 2001 and 2014, about 5 million hectares (about 12.3 million acres) of woody vegetation was cleared in the tropical and subtropical Andes, undermining ecosystem services and boosting carbon emissions. But during the last 20 years, land abandonment due to economic shifts and rural-to-urban migration have also created opportunities for forest regeneration. Andean tropical mountain forests have a hard time recovering. But identifying what type of recovery they are experiencing could help researchers pinpoint where restoration is needed most. Image by Rhett Butler. Using high-resolution satellite imagery, researchers looked for potential restoration areas in former pastures, logging sites and agricultural lands, targeting areas where forests began to bounce&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/05/new-research-finds-slow-forest-recovery-in-the-andes-and-ways-to-improve/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-268653</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/rewilding-animals-could-be-key-for-climate-report/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/rewilding-animals-could-be-key-for-climate-report/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>30 Mar 2023 17:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Adaptation To Climate Change, Animals, Biodiversity, Climate, Climate Change, Climate Science, Conservation, Conservation Solutions, Ecosystem Engineers, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Regeneration, Forestry, Forests, Mammals, Marine Mammals, Reintroductions, Restoration, Rewilding, Solutions, Wildlife, Wildlife Corridors, and Wildlife Rehabilitation]]>
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							<![CDATA[When it comes to climate solutions, your first thought may not be the wildebeest. But in the Serengeti, these buffalo-looking antelopes are the key to carbon capture. Wildebeest eat large amounts of grass and recycle it back into the soil as dung. So when their population plummeted in the early 1900s due to a disease [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[When it comes to climate solutions, your first thought may not be the wildebeest. But in the Serengeti, these buffalo-looking antelopes are the key to carbon capture. Wildebeest eat large amounts of grass and recycle it back into the soil as dung. So when their population plummeted in the early 1900s due to a disease transmitted from domestic cattle, the loss of natural grazing led to more frequent and intense wildfires, turning the Serengeti into a carbon source. Efforts to bring back or “rewild” the wildebeest population through disease management were a huge success, helping reduce the frequency and intensity of wildfires, and restoring the Serengeti back into a carbon sink. Trophic rewilding, or restoring and protecting the functional roles of animals in ecosystems, is an overlooked climate change solution, says a new report published this week in the journal Nature Climate Change. “The conservation of wildlife — allowing species to play their functional roles in ecosystems — offers untapped potential as a solution to climate change,” report co-author Andrew Tilker, the species conservation coordinator at conservation NGO Re:wild, said in a statement. According to the report, rewilding just nine wildlife species or species groups (African forest elephants, American bison, fish, gray wolves, musk oxen, sea otters, sharks, whales and wildebeest) would contribute more than 95% of the annual requirement to achieve the global target of extracting 500 billion metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere by 2100. This in turn would helping cap the global temperature rise at&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/rewilding-animals-could-be-key-for-climate-report/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-267069</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Tropical forest regeneration offsets 26% of carbon emissions from deforestation</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/tropical-forest-regeneration-offsets-26-of-carbon-emissions-from-deforestation/</link>
					<comments>https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/tropical-forest-regeneration-offsets-26-of-carbon-emissions-from-deforestation/#respond</comments>
					<pubDate>23 Mar 2023 18:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Jaqueline Sordi]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Alexandre de Santi]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
										<enclosure url="https://imgs.mongabay.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/03/23152740/stream-in-amazon-768x512.jpg" type="image/jpeg" />
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Amazon, Borneo, Congo Basin, Global, South America, Southeast Asia, and Tropics]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[carbon, Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Offsets, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forest Carbon, forest degradation, Forest Recovery, Forest Regeneration, Forestry, Forests, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Tropical Conservation Science, Tropical Deforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[A pioneering global study published March 15 in the journal Nature showed that humid tropical forests recovering from degradation and deforestation have the potential to absorb a vast amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and, if preserved, they can be an important ally in addressing the climate crisis. However, for the past three decades, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[A pioneering global study published March 15 in the journal Nature showed that humid tropical forests recovering from degradation and deforestation have the potential to absorb a vast amount of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and, if preserved, they can be an important ally in addressing the climate crisis. However, for the past three decades, this process might have mitigated just over one-quarter of the emissions generated by deforestation and forests lost or damaged due to human activity, such as logging and wildfire, because the destruction of these ecosystems has far outpaced regrowth. The team of international researchers, led by the University of Bristol, combined satellite data tools that capture changes in land cover type with information on aboveground carbon from the European Space Agency to accurately model the rates of carbon recovery. They looked at degraded forests (those recovering from human-induced disturbance that has led to a partial loss of their tree cover) and secondary forests (those that are regrowing naturally in deforested areas) in the three major regions of humid tropical forest on Earth: Amazon, Central Africa and Borneo. This was the first time a study had taken such a large-scale look at recovering forests. The researchers calculated there are 60 million hectares (148 million acres) of recovering secondary and degraded forests across the three regions. This amounts to about 1.5% of the world’s forested area and about 5% of all carbon absorbed by forests. According to the study, those regions have stored, on average, 107 million metric&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2023/03/tropical-forest-regeneration-offsets-26-of-carbon-emissions-from-deforestation/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-266786</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Lianas affect forest carbon uptake differently by region, study shows</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/lianas-affect-forest-carbon-uptake-differently-by-region-study-shows/</link>
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					<pubDate>14 Dec 2022 12:15:22 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Carolyn Cowan]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Borneo, Malaysia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Carbon Sequestration, Conservation Technology, Ecology, Environment, Forest Carbon, Forest Recovery, Forest Regeneration, Green, Rainforests, Research, Tropical Forests, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Viewed from above, tropical rainforests look like a blanket of trees, branches extending skyward and leaves fanning out in all directions. But in addition to the trees, up to 40% of the visible foliage can come from a separate group of plants: woody vines called lianas. Rooted in the soil, lianas use the architecture of [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Viewed from above, tropical rainforests look like a blanket of trees, branches extending skyward and leaves fanning out in all directions. But in addition to the trees, up to 40% of the visible foliage can come from a separate group of plants: woody vines called lianas. Rooted in the soil, lianas use the architecture of trees as an energy-efficient way to wind their way up into the canopy, fiercely competing with trees for essential resources like water, nutrients and sunlight. Scientists have long known that the presence of lianas can impede tree growth and diminish the carbon uptake and storage of tropical rainforests. Recent studies have also revealed that lianas thrive under the warmer, drier conditions wrought by climate change and within increasingly ubiquitous forest patches disturbed by human fragmentation and logging. As a result, the impact of lianas on the global carbon cycle is set to intensify as they grow in abundance around the world. “Lianas store less carbon than trees, mainly because they have a more extensive leaf canopy and less woody tissue because they use the trees for support [rather] than putting a lot of carbon into their own supportive stems,” Catherine Waite, a research associate at the University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, told Mongabay. Lianas twisting through the forest canopy in Danum Valley, Malaysian Borneo. Photo courtesy of Catherine Waite Waite is the lead author of a new study that indicates lianas might influence forest structure in fundamentally distinct ways in different parts of the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/12/lianas-affect-forest-carbon-uptake-differently-by-region-study-shows/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/weve-crossed-the-land-use-change-planetary-boundary-but-solutions-await/</link>
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					<pubDate>04 Aug 2022 19:25:09 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Liz Kimbrough]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
					</author>
							<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Covering the Commons and Planetary Boundaries]]>
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											<locations>
							<![CDATA[Amazon and Global]]>
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											<topic-tags>
							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Agriculture, Biodiversity, boreal forests, Climate Change, Deforestation, Earth Science, Ecosystems, Environment, Environmental Policy, Farming, Fires, Food, Forest Destruction, Forest Loss, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Global Environmental Crisis, Global Warming, Globalization, Governance, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, International Trade, Land Use Change, Landscape Restoration, Pollution, Rainforests, Research, Restoration, Supply Chain, and Sustainability]]>
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							<![CDATA[Just weeks after visiting a patch of Malaysian rainforest, Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler learned it had been logged for wood chips to supply a paper plant. A teenager at the time, Butler recalls being devastated. “This place of wonder and beauty was lost forever,” he wrote in a 2018 story. “The orangutan, the hornbills, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Just weeks after visiting a patch of Malaysian rainforest, Mongabay founder Rhett A. Butler learned it had been logged for wood chips to supply a paper plant. A teenager at the time, Butler recalls being devastated. “This place of wonder and beauty was lost forever,” he wrote in a 2018 story. “The orangutan, the hornbills, the butterflies, and even the leeches would have to make do in their dramatically changed environment. “I was at a loss for words when I would try to explain my sadness to my grade-school friends,” he went on. “Why, they asked, did I care about the destruction of a distant mosquito-ridden forest? … So I started writing.” Eventually, this writing morphed into Mongabay.com, the website you’re now reading that draws millions of views per month and daily tells the story of our rapidly transforming planet. That story is largely one of land systems change: humans altering the land, destroying forests and other habitats, only to replace it with pastures and plantations, mines, roads and other infrastructure. Land systems change is one of the nine planetary boundaries first defined by an international group of scientists at the Stockholm Resilience Centre (SRC) in 2009. The planetary boundary framework suggests that Earth has critical operating systems, each precariously balanced like a vehicle descending safely down a steep mountain road. But once humanity violates a planetary boundary, we risk destabilizing Earth’s operating systems and potentially heading over an existential cliff beyond which life as we know it, and humanity&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/weve-crossed-the-land-use-change-planetary-boundary-but-solutions-await/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Restoring Mexico&#8217;s ‘Garden of Eden’ is a process of deep regeneration</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/restoring-mexicos-garden-of-eden-is-a-process-of-deep-regeneration/</link>
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					<pubDate>21 Jul 2022 10:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Ocean Malandra]]>
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						<![CDATA[Alexandra Popescu]]>
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							<![CDATA[As it sets, the sun lights up the waters of Lake Catemaco before disappearing behind the shoulder of a rainforest-covered volcano in Mexico’s Los Tuxtlas region. The waterfront is filled with tourists enjoying the final rays of the day. Many of them might have come here to visit the “sorcerers” who perform cleansings and healings [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As it sets, the sun lights up the waters of Lake Catemaco before disappearing behind the shoulder of a rainforest-covered volcano in Mexico’s Los Tuxtlas region. The waterfront is filled with tourists enjoying the final rays of the day. Many of them might have come here to visit the “sorcerers” who perform cleansings and healings in what’s often called the country’s mythical land, tierra mitica. This southern part of the state of Veracruz is where Mesoamerica’s first advanced civilization, known as the Olmecs, emerged sometime around 1200 B.C. “The name Olmec was given to these people much later by the Aztecs, who still considered the region sacred and relied on it for rubber and other goods,&#8221; says Julio Gómez Hernández, an anthropologist at Mexico’s National School of Anthropology and History (ENAH) who has worked in Los Tuxtlas for more than 25 years. Tackling deforestation Los Tuxtlas, physically defined by a small but tight range of more than 300 volcanic peaks hugging Mexico’s Atlantic coast, with Lake Catemaco at its center, is also the northernmost limit of tropical rainforests in the Americas. It’s home to more than 2,600 species of plants and more than 800 species of vertebrates, and is a major winter migratory haven for waterfowl from across the continent. That makes it a place of high cultural and historical value and a natural area of great biological and hydrological importance, according to Hernández. In 1998, the Mexican government declared Los Tuxtlas a protected national reserve, and in 2006 UNESCO&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/07/restoring-mexicos-garden-of-eden-is-a-process-of-deep-regeneration/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Mongabay’s new-look Reforestation.app makes finding the right tree-planting project easier</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/mongabays-new-look-reforestation-app-makes-finding-the-right-tree-planting-project-easier/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jun 2022 05:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mongabay.com]]>
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						<![CDATA[Alejandroprescottcornejo]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Climate Change, Conservation, Deforestation, Ecosystems, Environment, Forest Recovery, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Green, Landscape Restoration, Rainforests, Reforestation, Restoration, Trees, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[Reforestation initiatives are more popular than ever, with thousands of projects across the globe led by private companies, nonprofits, institutions, governments and communities. So how can an investor or donor decide what projects to support? What kinds of questions should be asked to assess tree-planting projects and ensure they deliver the results they promise? To [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Reforestation initiatives are more popular than ever, with thousands of projects across the globe led by private companies, nonprofits, institutions, governments and communities. So how can an investor or donor decide what projects to support? What kinds of questions should be asked to assess tree-planting projects and ensure they deliver the results they promise? To help address these questions, Mongabay partnered with Vizzuality to bring greater transparency to the reforestation landscape. Reforestation.app is a user-friendly tool for reforestation experts, practitioners and supporters to connect with projects through improved transparency and access to information. Recently updated, Reforestation.app features a revamped user interface, improved search and filter functionalities, and step-by-step guidance to help people identify projects that align with diverse motivations and interests. Screenshot of the Reforestation.app homepage. Filling the tree-planting transparency gap Mongabay has an extensive track record of making high-quality environmental information available to the public through independent journalism. Reforestation.app builds on this work by improving the availability of information about tree planting and providing important context for individuals seeking to find an appropriate project. &#8220;Much of Mongabay&#8217;s work is devoted to telling the story of deforestation, so this tool facilitates our newsroom to investigate what tree-planting projects hope to achieve by regrowing forests, who is involved in the work, and how progress is being communicated.&#8221; says Willie Shubert, Mongabay&#8217;s global program director. &#8220;We&#8217;ve observed a wide gap in the disclosure of information about tree-planting projects, so our efforts to improve the transparency of these  projects are essential to the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/06/mongabays-new-look-reforestation-app-makes-finding-the-right-tree-planting-project-easier/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>A helping hand for red-footed tortoises making a comeback in Argentina</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/a-helping-hand-for-red-footed-tortoises-making-a-comeback-in-argentina/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 May 2022 13:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Claire Alberts]]>
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						<![CDATA[Elizabethalberts]]>
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							<![CDATA[Argentina, Chaco, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Conservation, Conservation Technology, Ecology, Forest Regeneration, Pet Trade, Rehabilitation, Reintroductions, Reptiles, Rewilding, Saving Species From Extinction, Solutions, Species, Tracking, Wildlife, Wildlife Rehabilitation, Wildlife Rescues, Wildlife Trade, Wildlife Trafficking, and Wildtech]]>
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							<![CDATA[Red-footed tortoises are so rarely seen in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina that they’re considered to be locally extinct. But now, the species is plodding its way toward a comeback. On May 19, conservationists working with Rewilding Argentina and partner organizations released 10 red-footed tortoises (Chelonoidis carbonarius) into El Impenetrable National Park in Chaco [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Red-footed tortoises are so rarely seen in the Gran Chaco region of Argentina that they’re considered to be locally extinct. But now, the species is plodding its way toward a comeback. On May 19, conservationists working with Rewilding Argentina and partner organizations released 10 red-footed tortoises (Chelonoidis carbonarius) into El Impenetrable National Park in Chaco province, a 130,000-hectare (321,000-acre) park in northern Argentina, close to the Paraguay border. In the coming months, the team plans to release another 30 tortoises. Since the establishment of El Impenetrable National Park in 2014, the park has been the site of several rewilding projects, including the reintroduction of jaguars (Panthera onca) and marsh deer (Blastocerus dichotomus). But this is the first time Rewilding Argentina has worked with reptiles, said Sebastián Di Martino, the conservation director of the organization. “It&#8217;s very important to bring this species back to the country,” Di Martino told Mongabay. “We expect that the species will start to fulfill their ecological role [as] a seed disperser, which will be very good for the forest. And, of course, [we hope] that they become a part of this new economy that we are trying to build in this region.” Red-footed tortoises have been under pressure from an illegal pet trade that’s booming in Paraguay and Bolivia, Di Martino said. Additional threats include habitat destruction and targeted hunting for meat consumption. Conservationists have already released 10 red-footed tortoises (Chelonoidis carbonarius) into El Impenetrable National Park, and they plan to release another 30 tortoises in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/a-helping-hand-for-red-footed-tortoises-making-a-comeback-in-argentina/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>As large areas of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest regenerate, the gains don’t last</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/as-large-areas-of-brazils-atlantic-forest-regenerate-the-gains-dont-last/</link>
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					<pubDate>30 May 2022 10:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Elizabeth Oliveira]]>
						</dc:creator>
										<author>
						<![CDATA[Hayat Indriyatno]]>
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							<![CDATA[Atlantic Forest, Brazil, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conservation, Deforestation, Ecology, Environment, Forest Regeneration, Forests, Reforestation, and Tropical Forests]]>
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							<![CDATA[For conservationists working to save the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, a key challenge has been maintaining recovered areas that lie inside private properties. Yet for recovery efforts to be successful, it’s necessary to investigate how long naturally regenerated forests (those recovering without human interference) are surviving. Scientists now have an answer to that question: less [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For conservationists working to save the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, a key challenge has been maintaining recovered areas that lie inside private properties. Yet for recovery efforts to be successful, it’s necessary to investigate how long naturally regenerated forests (those recovering without human interference) are surviving. Scientists now have an answer to that question: less than eight years on average, according to a recent study by a team of Brazilian researchers. For their analysis, they identified a combined area of 4.47 million hectares (11.05 million acres) of forest that had regenerated throughout Brazil’s Atlantic Forest between 1985 and 2019. They found that about two-thirds of this total, 3.1 million hectares (7.7 million acres), had survived as of 2019. The remaining 1.37 million hectares (3.39 million acres) of regenerated forest were cut by landowners after four to eight years. These patches of forest survived for an average of just 7.9 years — a relatively fleeting period that the researchers called &#8220;ephemeral forest regeneration.&#8221; For the study authors, led by biologist Pedro Ribeiro Piffer from Columbia University in the U.S., the high prevalence of ephemeral regeneration is cause for concern, especially in light of the worsening climate crisis and ongoing dismantling of environmental safeguards in Brazil. Previous studies, including one from 2020, showed encouraging potential for forest recovery through natural regeneration in the Atlantic Forest, Piffer told Mongabay. By analyzing satellite images from MapBiomas, a collaborative initiative between various universities, NGOs and tech companies, Piffer and his colleagues were able to zoom&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/05/as-large-areas-of-brazils-atlantic-forest-regenerate-the-gains-dont-last/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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