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Forest Restoration Solutions

Tree growing has become one of the most widely promoted responses to climate change and ecosystem degradation, with governments, companies and nonprofits pledging to restore hundre...

Rooting tree seed production in local knowledge boosts forest restoration outcomes (commentary)

Since the launch of global restoration initiatives such as the U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), large-scale tree planting has become the hallmark of many restorati...

Seedling gap threatens forest restoration goals

Tanzania’s ambitious plans to restore its forests under the National Development Vision 2050 face a major bottleneck, with a huge shortage of seedlings hampering reforestation effo...

Key tree species boost Amazon forest restoration, new study shows

Regrowing Amazon forests face a quiet collapse if fast pioneer trees die without stronger successors.

In the 1980s, Scotland planted commercial trees across parts of a 9,000-year-old peatland

The ancient peatlands of Scotland are undergoing a significant restoration, which addresses the detrimental effects caused by tree planting. Conservationists are diligently working...

China's tree patches restored forests, but reached only 19–30% of natural diversity in 20 years

A 20-year study in southwest China found that planting small patches of native trees can help restore damaged tropical forests without planting entire landscapes. The approach succ...

PARLIAMENT QUESTION: Restoration of Degraded Forest Land

 PARLIAMENT QUESTION: Restoration of Degraded Forest LandPosted On: 10 AUG 2026 6:40PM by PIB DelhiThe Green India Mission (GIM), one of the nine Missions under the National Action...

Ecosystem restoration is an essential tool for de-risking wildfire exposure

Billions are currently being committed to emergency firefighting while ecosystem restoration remains 'chronically underfunded', writes Commonland's Lily Maxwell-Lwin

Miyawaki afforestation is a unique method of planting trees that grows dense, mini-forests in a very short time

 Miyawaki afforestation is a unique method of planting trees that grows dense, mini-forests in a very...

Reforestation saw 5,339 trees planted at site in Pingtung

In 1998, Costa Rica spread 12,000 tonnes of orange waste; 16 years later, forest biomass rose 176%

In 1998, about 12,000 metric tonnes of orange peels and pulp were spread over a degraded pasture in Costa Rica as part of an unusual forest restoration experiment. Sixteen years la...

Renato Moraes de Jesus was a pioneer of Atlantic Forest restoration in Brazil

In 1977 a young forest engineer arrived at a neglected tract of Atlantic Forest in northern Espírito Santo. A mining company had acquired the property as a source of hardwood for r...

Cutting back vines lets recovering forests grow faster, Borneo study shows

As the world faces the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss, researchers are trying to understand how to restore degraded forests to most effectively sequester carbo...

COP17: Global landmass currently under restoration accounts for just 10 per cent of national pledges

More than 124.3 million hectares of land - an area roughly twice the size of France - is currently under restoration, rehabilitation or improved management worldwide, IUCN analysis...

Miyawaki forest revitalized, more trees planted

Romania exceeded PNRR target for afforestation, reforestation, and new urban forests

Romania’s Environment Ministry has exceeded the targets assumed through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) for afforestation, reforestation, urban forests and the dev...

Restoration plan for 1224 hectares of ‘degraded peatland’ on Scottish island estate

PLANS for the fourth phase of restoration works to approximately 1224 hectares of "degraded peatland" on a Scottish island estate have been set out

Lands Ministry restores 23,600 hectares of degraded landscapes, targets more forest recovery

The Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources has restored 23,600 hectares of degraded landscapes through the government’s Tree for Life Restoration Initiative, Minister Emmanuel Arm...

Virginia re-wet a swamp across 150 miles of old ditches; peat traps 200,000 tonnes of carbon

North Carolina is restoring its coastal peatlands by bringing water back to areas damaged by drainage, farming and timber activities. The projects aim to reduce the risk of severe...

Over 75 per cent of UK wetlands have been destroyed - restoring them would help prevent wildfires

Far from exacerbating wildfire risks, effective rewilding can restore water to landscapes and reduce the likelihood of fires spreading

30,000-hectare land restoration project to spur Dhofar’s bio-economy

MUSCAT: An ambitious land restoration programme being developed by the Global Green Growth Institute (GGGI) in partnership with Oman’s Environment Authority aims to transform 30,00...

How a Botonist Revived a Forest, By 'Doing Nothing'

When botanist Hugh Wilson looked at 109 hectares of exhausted, gorse-smothered hillside in New Zealand in 1987 and proposed doing essentially nothing, his neighbors called it "fool...

Bangladesh plans to plant 250 million trees. Keeping them alive will be harder

Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. Bangladesh plans to plant 250 million trees over...

Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America

In Guatemala’s Maya biosphere reserve local people are making a living from trees at the same time as increasing forest cover, showing nature is best protected by those who depend...