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  • War and Parks

    Jan 22, 2025, 1:49 pm By Syndicated Content
    This article by Zoe Loftus-Farren ws originally published in Earth island Journal. EVERY SPRING, UKRAINE’S Desna floodplain comes alive as tens of thousands of ducks, storks, cranes, and other birds pass through on their seasonal migration. In the…
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  • State-of-the-Art Technology Helps Monitor Amazon

    Jan 21, 2025, 12:00 pm By Syndicated Content
    This article by Rafael Cardoso originally appeared in Agencia Brasil. The song of birds. The ruffling of leaves as the jaguar prowls through the jungle. The communication between pirarucu fish swimming in the river. Deep in the Amazon forest, sounds come…
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  • Accountability in Restoration: Jouzour Loubnan Interview

    Jan 20, 2025, 12:00 pm By Stewart Mior
    Introduction: Lebanon Reforestation and Seed Sourcing Transparency plays a critical role in environmental projects, shaping public trust and enabling collaboration. For Jouzour Loubnan, a Lebanese NGO founded in 2008, transparency is not just a principle but…
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  • Data for Trees: The Info We Need to Grow Canada's Forests

    Jan 19, 2025, 2:06 pm By Stewart Mior
    How to Plant 2 Billion Trees Reforestation efforts are growing at an unprecedented scale, with programs like Canada’s 2 Billion Trees initiative leading the charge. Yet, scaling up from local projects to national or global campaigns reveals a range of…
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  • Ogoni Women Restore Mangroves in Niger Delta

    Jan 18, 2025, 11:00 am By Syndicated Content
    This article by Aimee Gabay originally appeared in Mongabay. After decades of crude oil spills and the introduction of invasive plant species, thousands of hectares of mangroves in the Niger Delta are destroyed, impacting aquatic species and women’s…
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  • Ground Truth Weekly Forest News, January 17

    Jan 17, 2025, 7:21 pm By Stewart Mior
    Fen Restoration in Canada: Assessing 13 Years of Change A new study examines fen restoration at an industrial peat extraction site in Quebec, testing three approaches: rewetting, rewetting with surface profiling, and rewetting with plant material introduction.…
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  • Ground Truth Weekly Forest News, January 17

    Jan 17, 2025, 12:30 pm By Stewart Mior
    Fen Restoration in Canada: Assessing 13 Years of Change This study examines fen restoration at an industrial peat extraction site in Quebec, testing three approaches: rewetting, rewetting with surface profiling, and rewetting with plant material introduction.…
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  • This Week in Forest Finance January 16

    9:33am By Stewart Mior
    Global Forest Finance Pledge Reaches $10 Billion in Deforestation Fight  The Global Forest Finance Pledge (GFFP) has surpassed $10 billion in funding, marking significant progress towards its $13 billion commitment made at COP26. With $4.34 billion…
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  • Cameroon Aims to Save Forests While Doubling Coffee Production

    Wed 3:30pm By Syndicated Content
    Thi sstory by Yannick Kenné was republished from Mongabay. The Central African Forest Initiative (CAFI) and the Cameroon government have signed a $60 million agreement they say will fund the development of cacao and coffee production, as well as protect the…
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  • Global Forest Watch Alert System Tracks Ecosystem Changes

    Jan 14, 2025, 6:24 pm By Syndicated Content
    This article by Shreya Dasgupta originally appeared in Mongabay. A new global data set makes it possible to track near-real-time changes in several types of vegetation across different ecosystems, including grasslands, savannas, shrublands, croplands,…
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  • 4 Graphics Explain Los Angeles’ Devastating January Fires

    Jan 13, 2025, 3:30 pm By Syndicated Content
    This article by  James MacCarthy and Jessica Richter was originally published by the World Resources Instiute. Wildfires have been rapidly spreading across the Los Angeles area since Jan. 7, displacing upwards of 175,000 people and claiming at least five…
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  • Nature Benefits When Logged Tropical Forests are Left to Recover

    Jan 11, 2025, 10:08 am By Syndicated Content
    Andrew Hector, University of Oxford; Charlie Marsh, National University of Singapore, and Edgar Turner, University of Cambridge In parts of the tropics like the island of Borneo, the pace of environmental change has been dramatic. Not long ago, the forests…
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  • How Planting a Tree in New Brunswick Costs $27

    Jan 10, 2025, 12:23 pm By Stewart Mior
    The Trees Remember is sponsoring a tree-planting project in New Brunswick, offering a meaningful way to honour a loved one’s memory. Being the massive Canadian forest enthusiasts that we are, we were naturally intrigued. After all, the world reportedly needs…
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  • Ground Truth Weekly Forest News January 10

    Jan 10, 2025, 11:09 am By Stewart Mior
    Women-Led Farms Restore Landscapes in Mauritania In Mauritania, women like Teslim Mint Soueilim are leading community farms that combine reforestation with income generation. Supported by the Great Green Wall (a "wall" of trees) initiative and the Action…
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  • One Open-Source Atlas to Map Them All

    Jan 9, 2025, 4:39 pm By Stewart Mior
    This article by Abhishyant Kidangoor originally appeared in Mongabay. The Global Ecosystems Atlas is a tool that aims to serve as an open-source repository for data on all the ecosystems in the world. Developed by the intergovernmental initiative Group on…
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  • This Week in Forest Finance, January 8

    Jan 8, 2025, 4:38 pm By Stewart Mior
    Arbor Day Foundation Awards $8M to Support Forestry Projects on Indigenous People's Day The Arbor Day Foundation has subawarded $8 million in grants, funded by the USDA Forest Service through the Inflation Reduction Act, to support community forestry projects…
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  • The Biden Administration Record on Old-Growth Forests

    Jan 8, 2025, 2:47 pm By Stewart Mior
    This article by Dominick A. Dellasala originally appeared in Mongabay. President Biden’s executive order in 2022 directed the U.S. Forest Service to conduct an inventory of mature and old-growth forests on federal lands for “conservation purposes,” but…
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  • In the Arctic, Planting Trees Actually Makes the World Warmer

    Jan 7, 2025, 11:13 am By Syndicated Content
    Marc Macias-Fauria, University of Cambridge and Jeppe Aagaard Kristensen, Aarhus University Across much of the world, planting more trees means more carbon is stored, and global warming is reduced. That’s the thinking behind recent proposals to plant more…
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  • Mapping the 2BT Program: Insights and Opportunities

    Jan 6, 2025, 2:16 pm By Chris Harris
    The 2BT Program: A Benchmark for Transparency The Canadian federal Two Billion Trees (2BT) program stands out globally for its transparency among taxpayer-funded sustainability initiatives. On Open Canada, we can see the names and recipients of each project in…
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  • Palm Oil Expansion Won’t Deforest: Indonesian President

    Jan 5, 2025, 7:31 pm By Syndicated Content
    This article by Hans Nicholas Jong originally appeared in Mongabay. Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto has called for the expansion of oil palm plantations, saying any criticism that this will cause deforestation is nonsense because oil palms are trees too.…
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