How would afforestation and restoration of large areas worldwide affect water-fluxes world wide? A new study has interesting answers. Impacts on precipitation reach far beyond country or even ...

Another major swath of the Upper Rio de Flag Watershed is being tackled. The board of directors of the Coconino County Flood Control District has approved investing $3.5 million in the Upper Rio de ...

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 ...

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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 ...

A Professor of Forestry Extension and Rural Learning at the Faculty of Renewable Natural Resources, University of Ibadan, Professor Ismail Olabisi Azeez, has expressed concern over the alarming rate ...

Ecological restoration of tropical forests seeks to reverse the widespread loss of forest cover and associated biodiversity while reinstating critical ecosystem functions such as carbon sequestration, ...

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).

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 ...

VIENTIANE: The Lao government has set a target to plant trees across 50,000 hectares nationwide in 2026 as part of efforts to ...