The farmers restoring Hawaii’s ancient food forests that once fed an island

Rain clouds cover the peaks of the west Maui mountains, one of the wettest places on the planet, which for centuries sustained biodiverse forests providing abundant food and medicines for Hawaiians who took only what they needed. Those days of abundance and food sovereignty are long gone.

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Security concerns, lack of support stall Africa’s Green Wall

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso (AP) — A series of complex challenges, including a lack of funding and political will as well as rising insecurity linked to extremist groups al-Qaida and the Islamic State in Burkina Faso, are obstructing progress on Africa’s Great Green Wall, according to experts invo

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Common goals ensure forest restoration success in northern Thailand

Twenty-five years ago, the Hmong community of Ban Mae Sa Mai village in northern Thailand began a collaboration with researchers and national park authorities to restore agricultural fields to natural forest.

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Slow progress on Great Green Wall prompts soul-searching at UN desertification summit

The Great Green Wall is the UN’s one big idea for combatting desertification: an 8,000 kilometre stretch of vegetation across the Sahel region of Africa. Fifteen years after launch, there is little to show for it on the ground.

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A story of 90,000 trees: how Kenya’s Kipsigis brought a forest back to life

Chepalungu forest has been at the heart of Kenya’s Kipsigis community for as long as anyone can remember. It is also a source of streams that recharge the Mara River and, owing to its proximity to the Maasai Mara national reserve, a refuge for wildlife.

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How phantom forests are used for greenwashing

Capturing carbon by increasing forest cover has become central to the fight against climate change. But there's a problem. Sometimes these forests exist on paper only - because promises have not been kept, or because planted trees have died or even been harvested.

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Wie 25 mexikanische Dörfer 20ʼ000 Hektaren Wüste begrünten

Neben der Strasse, die die mexikanischen Städte Oaxaca und Puebla verbindet, steht fünf Meter hoch der Wald. Das klingt erst einmal nicht besonders. Aber bis dorthin war es ein langer, steiniger Weg – ganz wörtlich. Vor zwanzig Jahren stand an derselben Stelle nichts, oder fast nichts.

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New Reports Show Forests Need Far More Funding to Help the Climate, and Even Then, They Can’t Do It All

Aerial view of a cocoa field and remains of deforested trees in Colombia on November 4, 2021. Credit: Raul Arboleda/AFP via Getty Images

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The tradeoffs of savanna restoration in a tree-crazed world

With a pocket-full of blazing stars and assorted other wildflower seeds, I’m ready to spend another hour restoring the several acres of longleaf pine savanna that surrounds my home in north Florida.

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Guest post: How much could restoring forests reduce India’s emissions?

Trisha Gopalakrishna, a DPhil Candidate in the Environmental Change Institute at the University of Oxford. Guy Lomax, a PhD Candidate in the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter.

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Neue Tropenwälder - Der Regenwald kommt zurück – wenn wir ihn in Ruhe wachsen lassen

Good News: Wo tropischer Regenwald abgeholzt oder abgebrannt wird, ist er nicht notwendigerweise für immer zerstört. So viel Regenwald wie in den 1980er- und 90-er-Jahren wird heute zwar in den Tropen nicht mehr abgeholzt.

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Kenyan forest communities sidelined as government misses two billion tree target

One morning in October in Loitoktok, a picturesque town in southern Kenyan on the border with Tanzania, Emmanuel Maiyani sat with a colleague discussing tree seedling species, prices, and planting sites as they filled in an excel sheet for hours. With 3.

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In Pictures: These women used to cut trees. Now they save them.

For years, the main appeal of the trees in Kenya’s Kirisia Forest was that they could be chopped down and sold for charcoal.

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Un antidote pour l’agriculture et la reforestation, face au dérèglement climatique

Alors que les scientifiques du GIEC ont alerté sur l’accélération du réchauffement climatique, l’Union africaine et 11 pays du continent se sont lancés dans un projet titanesque : la Grande Muraille Verte de Dakar à Djibouti.

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COP26 Presented Forests as a Climate Solution, But May Not Be Able to Keep Them Standing

Aerial view showing smoke billowing from a patch of forest being cleared with fire in the surroundings of Boca do Acre in the Amazon basin in northwestern Brazil, on Aug. 24, 2019. Credit: Lula Sampaio/AFP via Getty Images

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