By Rhett Ayers Butler In 1977 a young forest engineer arrived at a neglected tract of Atlantic Forest in northern Espírito ...

Forest restoration can benefit humans, boost biodiversity and help tackle climate change simultaneously, new research suggests. Restoring forests is often seen in terms of "trade-offs"—meaning it ...

By Evanildo da Silveira Soil created centuries ago by Indigenous peoples in the Amazon could help speed up recovery of ...

Forest restoration schemes should prioritize restoring native forests for greatest climate and environmental benefits, but these benefits incur a trade-off with wood production in comparison with tree ...

Restoring degraded forests to boost biodiversity, store carbon and reconnect fragmented habitats is a burgeoning area of tropical forest conservation. But uncertainty remains around the long-term ...

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If you liked this story, share it with other people. A two-decade-old experiment in the tropical rainforest of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo, is beginning to reveal that human-assisted restoration of logged ...

Recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic should lead to stronger action to safeguard the world’s forests, a senior UN official said on Friday, highlighting how these natural resources have helped to ...

A staff member from the Pesalat Reforestation Project on the island of Borneo replants trees in a peat-swamp forest area that was cleared by fires and logging. The areas are habitat for the orangutan, ...

Mette L. Wilkie is Director of the Forestry Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and co-lead of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030).