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7 January 2021
Democratic Republic of the Congo
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1500-3000 Words
Under an innovative scheme in the Democratic Republic of Congo, indigenous communities are obtaining the legal right to own and manage the forests where they reside. This ownership has shown success in slowing defores...
24 December 2020
Montana, United States
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800-1500 Words
After a fungus has nearly wiped out the whitebark pine species in North America, scientists and conservationists are coming together to restore the species. The trees offer food to various animal species and are impor...
5 November 2020
Shaver Lake, California, United States
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Over 3000 Words
A collaboration between former adversaries over forest management and preservation in the Sierra National Forest led to a $9 million investment into making 154,000 acres healthier, and able to withstand destruction in...
3 November 2020
Sweden
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1500-3000 Words
Satellite-based forest monitoring, paired with other sophisticated measures of a forest's health, is transforming the speed, precision, and economics of finding and eradicating infestations and pinpointing acreage whe...
23 October 2020
Colville, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
A collective of timber companies, conservationists, and forestry professionals has made the adjacent national forest more resilient to wildfires by focusing on small-diameter trees while preserving old growth. In 2019...
29 September 2020
Portugal
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800-1500 Words
Led by Portugal and Spain, European nations have shifted their responses to wildfires from a heavy emphasis on suppression to a more prevention-based approach. Climate change has increased fire risk greatly. By lettin...
24 September 2020
British Columbia, Canada
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Finding common ground between environmentalists, logging companies, and indigenous communities to protect the Great Bear Rainforest in Canada took years of discussion and even a dance at an Elton John concert. But the...
29 August 2020
Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada
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Over 3000 Words
The Vancouver Island marmot is making a comeback, thanks to recovery efforts from the Marmot Recovery Foundation. By 2003, there were only 27 marmots left in Canada’s wilderness, but their population has rebounded to ...
28 August 2020
California, United States
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Over 3000 Words
California’s wildfires historically were contained through periodic but limited burning. But “misguided fire police” over many decades, focused on overzealous fire suppression, has accumulated more dry fuel, resulting...
Mongabay
Sandra Weiss
30 July 2020
Gandú, Bahia, Brazil
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Ernst Götsch, an agronomist and cocoa farmer in Brazil, uses a different method of agriculture that could be more beneficial to small farmers. His method, known as syntropic agriculture, is an agroforestry system wher...
8 July 2020
United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
With the growing trend in regenerative agriculture, Propagate Ventures is working with farmers to transition them from conventional agriculture to agroforestry. This technique focuses on incorporating trees into farml...
5 June 2020
Kenya
Documentary
5-15 Minutes
In Kenya, initiatives are being devised to help the country reach a minimum tree cover target of 10% of the total landmass by 2022. One of the more successful efforts has been an uptick of public awareness campaigns s...
24 April 2020
Yurok Reservation, California, United States
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800-1500 Words
The Indigenous Peoples Burning Network works with a group of other similar networks with the shared goal of promoting prescribed fire in a positive and safe manner that will help local ecosystems and minimize the risk...
23 March 2020
West Linn, Oregon, United States
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1500-3000 Words
After a paper mill in Oregon closed abruptly, a venture capitalist swooped in, bought the place, and reopened it as the first paper mill in the United States to produce paper using wheat pulp. Through a partnership be...
20 February 2020
District of Columbia, Washington, United States
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800-1500 Words
Policymakers, nonprofit leaders, and corporate heads have recently undertaken efforts to increase urban forestry. Urban trees decrease energy use, protect storm drain infrastructure, decrease noise, and help boost wel...
13 February 2020
Kentucky, United States
Multi-Media
Over 3000 Words
After strip-mining for coal devastated Kentucky’s forests and planting grass didn’t revive Appalachia’s ecosystems, a federal employee reversed course and spearheaded an ambitious reforestation effort. By planting tre...
5 February 2020
Tamil Nadu, India
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800-1500 Words
The Nature Conservation Foundation is working to restore patches of rainforests in India that were degraded due to the expansion of plantations in the region. As the climate crisis continues, rainforests can play a ke...
30 December 2019
Hawaii, United States
Podcast
5-15 Minutes
As concerns about food security grow in Hawaii amidst a backdrop of climate change, Pacific Islanders are leaning into agroforestry as a means to address the problem. Resilient to extreme weather, agroforests allow fo...
5 November 2019
Broadback, Quebec, Canada
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1500-3000 Words
In Northern Quebec, scientists, government officials and researchers have seen the positive environmental effects that stem from giving indigenous groups their land rights back. Because many of these indigenous commun...
4 November 2019
Brumunddal, Norway
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Norway is leading the world in low-carbon structural wood development; now, the country is working to bring factories into the country to turn the trees into usable lumber within the nation's borders. The city of Brum...
1 November 2019
Portland, Oregon, United States
Multi-Media
800-1500 Words
Friends of Trees, a nonprofit organization in the Portland area, are not just planting trees because they help combat climate change and improve air quality, but because they also help stop major flooding and avoid er...
Reasons to be Cheerful
Klaus Sieg
29 October 2019
Ismalia, Egypt
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800-1500 Words
The Serapium Forest is one of 36 forests in Egypt that are growing because of treated wastewater, part of a country-wide initiative that started 25 years ago as a way to productively use treated sewage water, create f...
17 October 2019
Baltimore, Maryland, United States
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800-1500 Words
Baltimore has become a leader in maintaining and growing the city’s trees by monitoring their health more closely. Using a new mapping technique, city officials can analyze its current tree canopy and see how it affec...
10 October 2019
Nairobi, Kenya
Text
Under 800 Words
To combat the rapidly decreasing forest density in Kenya, an organization created "seedballs," or seeds from trees coated in charcoal and other nutrients that help the seeds survive long enough to germinate. The organ...
7 August 2019
Bidibidi, Uganda
Multi-Media
Under 800 Words
Because deforestation in Uganda is rapidly increasing, including in the Bidibidi Refugee Settlement, a new tactic for constructing bricks for housing that didn't require trees was developed by Mercy Corps, UK Aid, and...
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