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  • My Neck of the Woods

    Community activism in the late 1800s led to the creation of a unique 6.1 million-acre forest preserve in New York called Adirondack Park. It’s explicitly protected by the state constitution and consists of half publicly-owned land and half privately-owned land.

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  • How Ecotourism Became an Unexpected Climate Solution in an At-Risk Guatemalan National Park

    The community living in Northern Guatemala’s Sierra del Lacandón National Park monitors the landscape for fires set by people looking to clear the forest illegally and is trained to prevent them from spreading. They’re focusing on ecotourism as an alternative way to earn a living.

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  • In Rural Western Uganda, A Tree-Planting Initiative Shows Signs of Life

    Ecosia, a nonprofit search engine that uses its profits to support tree-planting initiatives, is working with the Jane Goodall Institute Austria to grow 200,000 trees in Uganda. The organizations work with communities to design the projects around their needs and then support locals through the process of growing trees.

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  • How to Revive a Burned Forest? Rebuild the Tree Supply Chain

    Mast Reforestation sells carbon credits to fund its work replanting trees where forests were decimated by wildfires. The company collects seeds from local, native trees, uses x-ray machines to ensure they are likely to sprout, and plants them.

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  • Florida is paying bounty hunters to control its python population

    Python removal agents with South Florida’s Water Management District hunt the invasive Burmese python in the Florida Everglades to prevent the snakes from continuing to destroy the ecosystem. Since launching the program in 2017, agents have removed 8,565 pythons across the state.

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  • Rewilding Japan With Clearings in the Forest and Crowdfunding Campaigns

    Conservationists in Japan are rewilding the country’s vast monoculture plantation forests to restore biodiversity and allow the ecosystem to return to its natural state, deciduous forest. They are doing so by turning the tree plantations into meadows and buying plots of land with private donations to plant native trees on.

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  • Emprenden soluciones no gubernamentales para mitigar la erosión costera

    Para proteger y restaurar las barreras naturales, el Gobierno de Puerto Rico ha aprobado legislación, asignado fondos y desarrollado programas para apoyar manglares, arrecifes de coral y dunas.

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  • Wildfires are killing California's ancient giants. Can seedlings save the species?

    The United States National Park Service is planting giant sequoia tree seedlings in groves that were decimated by extreme wildfires in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. The effort aims to preserve the endangered species as the organization doesn’t believe the trees in these areas will regenerate on their own.

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  • The all-women crew fighting Indonesia's peatland fires

    The Power of Mama is an all-female firefighting unit that protects the health and livelihoods of the local community and environment by working with village authorities to educate local farmers on safe practices to prevent wildfires and preserve the ecosystem. The unit formed in 2022 with just 44 volunteers, but has since grown to 92 members aged 19 to 60 across six villages.

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  • Traditional healers in Philippines keep their 'forest pharmacy' standing

    A community of mananambal, or healers, in the Philippines are helping to conserve the forests around their community by practicing their sustainable, healing traditions and spiritual beliefs. They protect the nature around them because it is considered a source of healing and home to spirits, and they only prune trees and gather herbs in ways that promote growth.

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