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Indonesia reforestation plan a smoke screen for agriculture project, critics say

Hans Nicholas Jong 17 Dec 2024

Study looks for success factors in African projects that heal land and help people

Ruth Kamnitzer 13 Dec 2024
Image courtesy of Vicente Sampaio/Imaflora.

Loggers and carbon projects forge odd partnerships in the Brazilian Amazon

Fernanda Wenzel 9 Dec 2024

Agroecology offers blueprint for resilient farming in northern Ghana

Caleb Ahinakwah 5 Dec 2024
Mangroves in Raja Ampat.

How are mangrove restoration projects doing? Interview with Tom Worthington

Abhishyant Kidangoor 3 Dec 2024
Restoring the abandoned rice fields required breaking up earthen dykes and clearing channels to restore natural water flow, so that mangroves seedlings and propagules could naturally recolonize the areas. In instances seedlings are also planted to help natural regeneration. Image by Wetlands International & Beyond Borders Media

How a holistic approach aims to heal mangroves in Guinea-Bissau

Ruth Kamnitzer 27 Nov 2024

Nations should redirect 1% of military spending towards reforestation, Mexico proposes

Maxwell Radwin 27 Nov 2024
Capuccin monkeys in a low-land tropical rainforest in Costa Rica.

Huge deforested areas in the tropics could regenerate naturally, study finds

John Cannon 22 Nov 2024

Tree islands help restore biodiversity in oil palm plantations

Bobby Bascomb 21 Nov 2024

Experts welcome Brazil’s revived reforestation plan as much-needed boost

Elizabeth Oliveira 20 Nov 2024

Organizations tackle droughts, floods in Brazil by planting forests

Ellen Nemitz 18 Nov 2024

Weak laws on native seeds undermine Brazil reforestation efforts: Study

Shanna Hanbury 15 Nov 2024

Brazil renews plan to restore degraded land half the size of the UK

Shanna Hanbury 7 Nov 2024
Image by Aram Kazandjian via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Conservationists mobilize to save Sierra Leone national park and its chimpanzees

Mohamed Fofanah 4 Nov 2024
Farmer Ignatius Kakompe standing by a pod mahogany tree felled recently by illegal loggers.

Defending the hidden forest gems of Zambia’s Copperbelt Province

Ryan Truscott 31 Oct 2024

Marshes are cost-effective for protecting coasts: Study  

Bobby Bascomb 31 Oct 2024

Brazil’s native seed collector networks drive wider social change, study finds

Shanna Hanbury 29 Oct 2024
Missouri Botanical Garden

Botanical gardens play key role in biodiversity & climate conventions (commentary)

Jennifer Bernstein 22 Oct 2024

In Costa Rica, sustainable tourism is no longer enough for conservation

Michele Bertelli 21 Oct 2024
The reforestation team planting trees.

Across reforestation organizations, best practices claims abound, but details are scarce

Marina Martinez 2 Oct 2024
With the advance of agriculture in Maranhão, rain cycles have been disrupted and rivers and streams have begun drying. Some of the state’s only remaining rainforest lies within a group of Indigenous lands here, home to the Guarani people. Ana Ionova for Mongabay.

In the Brazilian Amazon, seedlings offer hope for drying rivers

Ana Ionova 30 Aug 2024
Peter Kamowa settled in the edge of the forest and helps to guard it from invasion. Image by Charles Mpaka for Mongabay.

As Malawi government struggles to protect a forest, communities show the way

Charles Mpaka 29 Aug 2024
Prince Bissiemou measures a tree in a logged forest in Gabon. Image by Megan Sullivan.

Logging done sustainably doesn’t have to harm ecosystem services, study finds

Leocadia Bongben 22 Aug 2024

3D ‘digital twin’ rainforest maps could help reforestation programs in Costa Rica

Mark Hillsdon 20 Aug 2024
Entrepreneur Namita Mondal is watering mangrove saplings at her nursery.

In the Sundarbans, women are embracing mangrove restoration as an alternative livelihood

Sadiqur Rahman 15 Aug 2024
Two men planting trees in the Yokadouma Council Forest, Cameroon. Image courtesy WWF.

Reforestation to capture carbon could be done much more cheaply, study says

Liz Kimbrough 14 Aug 2024
Red-throated bee-eaters (Merops bulocki), Pehonko, Benin. Image by Yves Bas via iNaturalist (CC BY 4.0).

Birdsong rings out once again in Togo’s sacred forest of Titiyo

Charles Kolou 7 Aug 2024
Results of Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration in Talensi District of Ghana. Image courtesy of World Vision.

Harnessing ‘invisible forests in plain view’ to reforest the world

Mike DiGirolamo, Rachel Donald 16 Jul 2024
Costa Rica rainforest

Conservation pays and everyone’s benefitting from it (commentary)

Diego Vincenzi 15 Jul 2024
Coral reefs seen along the coast in an aerial photo.

New approach to restore coral reefs on mass scale kicks off in Hawai‘i

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Jun 2024
Members of BirdWatch Zambia with binoculars, pointing at something interesting out of the frame. Image © WeForest

Zambian forest reserve rebounds with a little assistance

Ryan Truscott 20 Jun 2024
A reforested mangrove forest in Thailand.

As Big Tech eyes the carbon market, will it work this time?

Abhishyant Kidangoor 5 Jun 2024

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