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In Venezuela, natural regeneration helps restore a threatened cloud forest

María Fernanda Rodríguez 10 Sep 2024
An Old English Longhorn at Knepp. Disturbance from large herbivores has restored this landscape by reactivating natural processes that foster healthy ecology.

From debt to diversity: A journey of rewilding, carbon capture and hope

Elizabeth Fitt 9 Aug 2023
Defo

Rare Amazon dark soils could help forest restoration, study shows

Juliana Ennes 14 Jun 2023
Soy field and cerrado / chaco / Amazon transition forest. Photo by Rhett A. Butler for Mongabay.

U.S. conservation investment routed to eucalyptus expansion in Brazil’s Cerrado

Shanna Hanbury 6 Jun 2023
A Baird's tapir walking at night through her natural habitat.

Rewilding animals could be key for climate: Report

Liz Kimbrough 30 Mar 2023
A river flows through the Amazon Rainforest.

Tropical forest regeneration offsets 26% of carbon emissions from deforestation

Jaqueline Sordi 23 Mar 2023
Liana

Lianas affect forest carbon uptake differently by region, study shows

Carolyn Cowan 14 Dec 2022
Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is just one region where fires are burned throughout Russia in 2020. Image by Greenpeace International.

We’ve crossed the land use change planetary boundary, but solutions await

Liz Kimbrough 4 Aug 2022
lake landscape

Restoring Mexico’s ‘Garden of Eden’ is a process of deep regeneration

Ocean Malandra 21 Jul 2022
Employee from the MESCOT reforestation initiative showing a sapling in Sabah, Malaysia

Mongabay’s new-look Reforestation.app makes finding the right tree-planting project easier

Mongabay.com 28 Jun 2022

A helping hand for red-footed tortoises making a comeback in Argentina

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 30 May 2022

As large areas of Brazil’s Atlantic Forest regenerate, the gains don’t last

Elizabeth Oliveira 30 May 2022
Hornbills — the so-called “farmers of the forest” in Africa and Asia — move more than 700 plant species up to 11 km (7 mi) in a day.

As animal seed dispersers go the way of the dodo, forest plants are at risk

Sharon Guynup 28 Apr 2022
Musk oxen.

‘Nature has priority’: Rewilding map showcases nature-led restoration

John Cannon 11 Apr 2022
Farid Tarabay, the new forest guide, under the Lamartine Cedar, one of the oldest in the SBR. Image by Elizabeth Fitt for Mongabay.

From land mines to lifelines, Lebanon’s Shouf is a rare restoration success story

Elizabeth Fitt 23 Mar 2022

From teak farms to agroforestry: Panama tests reforestation strategies

Colin Sytsma 10 Mar 2022

As Australia faces new fire reality, forest restoration tactics reevaluated

Grace Dungey 14 Feb 2022

Here’s how science is trying to conserve the monarch butterfly’s forests

Thelma Gómez Durán 17 Jan 2022

Global ecosystem restoration progress: How and who’s tracking it?

Mike Gaworecki 22 Dec 2021
Embera woman within the forest

Conservation projects in Mesoamerica make the case for Indigenous climate funding

Dimitri Selibas 16 Dec 2021

Hold the tree planting: Protect ecosystems first for maximum carbon storage, study says

Shreya Dasgupta 7 Dec 2021

With loss of forests, Bali villages find themselves vulnerable to disaster

Luh De Suriyani 29 Nov 2021

Kenya’s Indigenous Ogiek partner with government rangers to restore Mau Forest

Jackson Okata 24 Nov 2021
Toco toucan (Ramphastos toco). Photo credit: Rhett A. Butler

New restoration “Playbook” calls for political, economic, and social change

Liz Kimbrough 8 Nov 2021

COP26: “Work with nature in forest restoration,” says respected journalist

Sue Branford 4 Nov 2021
PORTO VELHO, RONDÔNIA, BRAZIL. Aerial view of burned areas in the Amazon rainforest, in the city of Porto Velho, Rondônia state. (Photo: Victor Moriyama / Greenpeace)

COP26 deforestation-ending commitment must hold leaders accountable (commentary)

Steve Trent 3 Nov 2021

COP26 Glasgow Declaration: Salvation or threat to Earth’s forests?

Justin Catanoso 3 Nov 2021

Beyond tree planting: When to let forests restore themselves

Mike Gaworecki 18 Oct 2021

‘Kew Declaration’ unites experts on reforestation, aims at policymakers ahead of COP26

Liz Kimbrough 13 Oct 2021

Mycoremediation brings the fungi to waste disposal and ecosystem restoration

Carly Nairn 15 Sep 2021
The Rietholzbach catchment is a hilly pre-alpine basin in north eastern Switzerland

Reforestation holds promise for Europe’s increasingly drier summers

Jim Tan 10 Aug 2021

Global restoration now has an online meeting point

Liz Kimbrough 23 Jul 2021

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