Ecosystem restoration news

• One year after a historic dam removal, teens inspire river restoration worldwide: ‘It turns out you can win’, theguardian.com (Oct 25, 2025) — The Klamath River began rebounding almost immediately. Now, Indigenous youth are leading the next chapter of the recovery, inspiring tribes from Brazil to China
• A ‘Secret Weapon’ for Fighting Climate Change Comes Surging Back, reasonstobecheerful.world (Oct 09, 2025) — Capturing carbon 35 times faster than the Amazon, seagrasses have faced centuries of decline. Now restoration projects across North America are seeing their meadows quadruple in size.
• Fire in the hole: the Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2025)
• Fresh water and wildlife brought back to degraded páramos in Ecuador, Ana Cristina Alvarado, news.mongabay.com (Aug 07, 2025)
• There’s a surprising climate solution right under your feet: mycorrhizal fungi. They grab huge amounts of carbon. But they need urgent protection [Grist], Daily Alternative (Jul 26, 2025)
• Oysters Are Breathing Life Into the Chesapeake Bay, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 07, 2025) — As the world’s most ambitious oyster reef restoration nears completion, many millions of tiny mollusks are revitalizing America’s largest estuary
• From barren land to thriving forest: The story of photographer Sebastião Salgado’s Instituto Terra in Brazil, globalvoices.org (Jun 05, 2025) — ‘It is a model, a pilot for Brazil, and I would say it might even be a pilot for the world. ..’ Written by Ana Cavalcanti
• The regen farmers challenging food system foundations, wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk (Jun 05, 2025) — large-scale regenerative farming study renews hope for nature-friendly food producers
• ‘We Are the People of the River’, reasonstobecheerful.world (May 23, 2025) — The Fort Yuma Quechan Tribe is working to heal the ailing Colorado River ecosystem by planting one native seed at a time
• All the birds returned’: How a Chinese project led the way in water and soil conservation, theguardian.com (Mar 14, 2025)

• Massachusetts farmers turn cranberry bogs back to wetlands in $6m initiative, theguardian.com (Nov 28, 2024)

• ‘I think, boy, I’m a part of all this’: how local heroes reforested Rio’s green heart, theguardian.com (Oct 10, 2024)

• Forest and water source restoration in Cameroon offering sustainable solutions, news.mongabay.com (Sep 16, 2024)

• How China’s most ‘futuristic’ city restored its mangroves, dialogue.earth (Jul 11, 2024)

• Community-led approach to mangrove restoration in southern Thailand based on beekeeping, news.mongabay.com (Jun 18, 2024)
• EU passes law to restore 20% of bloc’s land and sea by end of decade, theguardian.com (Jun 17, 2024)

• Herd of 170 bison could help store CO2 equivalent of almost 2m cars, researchers say, theguardian.com (May 15, 2024)

• Reciprocal relationship: Restoring and receiving on the Skykomish, snohomishcd.org (Mar 14, 2024)

• Recognition from UN for Nepal’s tiger range restoration opens doors for technical and financial support, news.mongabay.com (Feb 15, 2024)

• Low-carbon milk to AI irrigation: tech startups powering Latin America’s green revolution, theguardian.com (Jan 30, 2024)

• Opportunities from a community-led strategy to save Brazil’s dry forests from desertification, news.mongabay.com (Dec 11, 2023)
• Partnering with communities and llama herders in the Andes to improve soil quality and plant productivity as more ice retreats, news.mongabay.com (Nov 27, 2023)
• Outlaw fisher turns reef marshal in Indonesia’s Sumbawa, news.mongabay.com (Oct 31, 2023)
• “If we design well, we design for shared aliveness”. Speaking from China, John Thackara lays out an economy defined by care, The Daily Alternative (Jul 28, 2023)
• Standing up and saying NO to erasing our environmental heritage. Stopping land encroachment., medium.com (May 09, 2023)
• Community-led coral restoration project is rare hit amid slew of misses in Indonesia, news.mongabay.com (May 04, 2023)
• Small Farmers and Entrepreneurs Offer New Hope for Africa’s Degraded Lands, wri.org (Apr 16, 2023)
• Indigenous Peoples defend a precious natural resource- empowering them protects us all, ashden.org (Feb 14, 2023)

• Green Deal: pioneering proposals to restore Europe's nature by 2050 and halve pesticide use by 2030, ec.europa.eu (Jun 22, 2022)
• The farmers restoring Hawaii’s ancient food forests that once fed an island, theguardian.com (Jun 17, 2022)

• World’s Largest Seagrass Project Proves “You Can Actually Restore the Oceans”, reasonstobecheerful.world (Jul 06, 2021)

Just 3% of world’s ecosystems remain intact, study suggests, Apr 15, 2021...The Guardian

• Ecovillages as Hubs for Social and Ecological Regeneration, Ecosystem Restoration Camps (Jul 29, 2020)