Forests are integral to many landscapes and provide habitat, food and ecosystems services to so many forms of life. However, many of our forests are being degraded from deforestation and fires, with striking images of record forest fires in Australia and the western U.S. and large-scale logging in the Amazon rainforest within our newsfeeds. But it’s not all bad news – major restoration efforts, such as the U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, are bringing global attention and funding on regrowing lost forests, and tree-planting is having a heyday in the general zeitgeist. Here is a selection of the best articles exploring forests and restoration in Landscape News.
Forgotten Forests
A serial exploration into the planet’s most precious – yet neglected – tropical forests
Mangrove forests: the muddy mazes that stash carbon and hide secrets
The humid entanglements filled with food and teeming with life
What do we talk about when we talk about tree-planting?
Trees are having a heyday in the headlines, but we must be careful what we say
Araucariaceae: the ancient giants that are the world’s rarest trees
Finding the few remaining species of a tree family that has survived 200 million years
Drones, dogs, ‘cocoons’ – it’s a new age for tree planting
A look at the technologies changing the way tree seeds are planted
4.06 billion remaining hectares, and other new numbers on forests… But what do they mean?
Putting the new U.N. report on global forests into context
How did deforestation lead to the rise of COVID-19?
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