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2025
Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025) - COP30 host Brazil creates 10 new Indigenous territories, BBC News (Nov 18, 2025)
- As Brazil Cracks Down on Forest Clearing, Emissions Fall, e360.yale.edu (Nov 05, 2025)
- Brazil records biggest annual fall in emissions in 15 years, notably thanks to fight against deforestation, lemonde.fr/en (Nov 04, 2025) — The gross emissions of Latin America's biggest country fell by 16.7% year-on-year, according to Brazil's Climate Observatory, a network of environmental NGOs
- The bold model stopping deforestation in its tracks, positive.news (Oct 13, 2025) — Rainforests are powerful carbon sinks and crucial to climate stability. A pioneering effort to protect them involves providing cash to forest communities so they don’t need to accept offers from loggers
- New South Wales government unveils plans for Great Koala National Park to safeguard 12,000 koalas and dozens of other threatened species, news.mongabay.com (Oct 03, 2025)
- Seven Indigenous paths to protect the Amazon, news.mongabay.com (Sep 29, 2025)
- Native forest logging must end in order to reach Labor’s emissions reduction target, expert says, theguardian.com (Sep 26, 2025)
- Plans Bloom for a Microforest in Princeton as New Jersey Residents Tackle Rising Heat, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 18, 2025)
- Deforestation Threatens Public Health. Securing Indigenous Land Rights Can Help, Researchers Find, insideclimatenews.org (Sep 11, 2025)
- The Ancient Woodland Practice Boosting British Biodiversity, reasonstobecheerful.world (Aug 28, 2025)
- Calls to declare the Amazon a global fossil fuel exclusion zone, elespectador.com (Aug 18, 2025) — More than 50 Indigenous and civil society organizations demand that the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization declare this biome fossil fuel-free
- Fire in the hole: the Indigenous crews blasting the Alaskan rainforest to save it, theguardian.com (Aug 17, 2025)
- The Indigenous rangers protecting Katsa Su in Colombia, globalvoices.org (Jul 22, 2025)
- ‘I couldn’t watch the forests vanish’: the man restoring Solomon Islands’ vital mangroves, theguardian.com (Jul 15, 2025)
- Meet Kerala’s ‘rainforest gardeners’ creating a Noah’s ark for endangered plants, theguardian.com (Jul 01, 2025)
- One man, thousands of trees and heaps of determination: how regreening Guatemala transformed a village, theguardian.com (Jun 19, 2025)
- Colonisation cleared 95% of these woodlands – Indigenous cultural burning is bringing it back, theconversation.com (Jun 17, 2025)
- 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
- In India, Indigenous women and their ‘dream maps’ seek to protect lands from climate change, apnews.com (May 15, 2025)
- The local women saving Yucatán’s mangroves, ‘It has been worth it’, news.mongabay.com (Apr 25, 2025)
- ‘It will be beautiful to see our kids grow up with this’: how communities around the world are planting trees, theguardian.com (Apr 19, 2025)
- The unlikely comeback of one of Brazil’s rarest parrots, news.mongabay.com (Apr 14, 2025)
- Young beekeeper’s initiative brings hope and profit to Sierra Leone communities, news.mongabay.com (Mar 31, 2025)
- Drone tree-seeding trial could ‘revolutionise’ the expansion of rainforests say exponents, positive.news (Mar 18, 2025)
- Why I’m training Colombian Amazonians to become archaeology tourist guides, theconversation.com (Mar 18, 2025)
- ‘Diversion’ trees to protect shea trees and their livelihoods planted by women in Ghana, news.mongabay.com (Mar 08, 2025)
- The dream to restore a special forest taking root in the high Andes, news.mongabay.com (Feb 14, 2025)
- Women-led reforestation initiative in Uganda fights flooding, erosion, Innocent Kiiza, news.mongabay.com (Jan 23, 2025)
- ‘I felt death in the flames’: how lighting a forest fire inspired one man to transform barren ranches into rainforest, theguardian.com (Jan 22, 2025)
- Indigenous communities in the Philippines restore a mountain forest to prevent urban flooding, news.mongabay.com (Jan 20, 2025)
- From the ashes: how a mayor beat the loggers to turn the Amazon green again, theguardian.com (Jan 07, 2025)
- To Combat Phoenix’s Extreme Heat, a New Program Provides Sustainable Shade, insideclimatenews.org (Jan 02, 2025)
2024
- 10m trees to be planted in US to replace ones destroyed by hurricanes, theguardian.com (Dec 31, 2024)
- Bamboo bonanza: how a village in India used its forest to go from poverty to prosperity, theguardian.com (Dec 17, 2024)
- Ranching to boost grasslands conservation in Bolivia’s flooded savannas, news.mongabay.com (Nov 29, 2024)
- Natural forest regeneration reverses drought and helps rebuild communities in Ethiopia, theenergymix.com (Nov 27, 2024)
- Alarm call as world's trees slide towards extinction, BBC News (Nov 04, 2024)
- 215 million hectares of forest – an area bigger than Mexico – could grow back by itself, if we can just leave it alone, theconversation.com (Oct 30, 2024)
- ‘I think, boy, I’m a part of all this’: how local heroes reforested Rio’s green heart, theguardian.com (Oct 10, 2024)
- Africa’s Great Green Wall will only combat desertification and poverty by harnessing local solutions, theconversation.com (Oct 08, 2024)
- Forest and water source restoration in Cameroon offering sustainable solutions, news.mongabay.com (Sep 16, 2024)
- Growing back a forest for his people, a one-time illegal logger in Sumatra, news.mongabay.com (Aug 30, 2024)
- Could a £2-a-day basic income be the key to protecting rainforests?, theguardian.com (Aug 22, 2024)
- Argentina judge halts deforestation of Chaco forest in rare move, reuters.com (Aug 19, 2024)
- Women in the Sundarbans embracing mangrove restoration as an alternative livelihood, news.mongabay.com (Aug 15, 2024)
- Madrid’s summers can be brutally hot. So why are so many of our trees being chopped down? Felicity Hughes, theguardian.com (Aug 15, 2024)
- Madagascar’s mangroves making a comeback, news.mongabay.com (Aug 14, 2024) — engagement with coastal communities is critical to empower those communities to protect the local mangroves that they depend on.
- Sustaining birds, bees & communities, Rio’s grassroots agroforestry, news.mongabay.com (Aug 13, 2024)
- Fighting for the Native Forest of the Gran Chaco in Argentina, insideclimatenews.org (Aug 06, 2024)
- Planting English trees to protect the Peruvian rainforest, positive.news (Aug 02, 2024)
- Amazon deforestation cut by 83% in places protected by Indigenous communities – new research, theconversation.com (Jul 15, 2024)
- Rio de Janeiro bay reforestation shows mangroves’ power to mitigate climate disasters, apnews.com (May 24, 2024)
- Fewer wildfires, great biodiversity: what is the secret to the success of Mexico’s forests?, theguardian.com (May 01, 2024) — More than half of the country’s forestry is in community and Indigenous hands – and from CO2 absorption to reducing poverty the results are impressive
- ‘We need more shade’: US’s hottest city turns to trees to cool those most in need, theguardian.com (Apr 17, 2024)
- As the First Nations know, forests are ‘music to the soul’, positive.news (Apr 03, 2024)
- From ashes to action: how global mapping illuminates forest conservation's path, north-arrow.org (Apr 02, 2024)
- ‘Climate-smart’ acres to expand via new U.S. agroforestry project, news.mongabay.com (Mar 25, 2024) — Agroforestry practices are effective at capturing carbon while providing additional commodities and land benefits to farmers
- The best solutions to make life possible in the Caatinga semiarid region are those born from popular wisdom. “Those that sprout like a seed you put in the ground.” Tião Alves, news.mongabay.com (Mar 25, 2024)
- Indigenous communities get tech and training on vital early warning systems, positive.news (Mar 22, 2024)
- A mecca for rewilders: the community-led project restoring Scotland’s southern uplands, theguardian.com (Mar 20, 2024)
- Reciprocal relationship: Restoring and receiving on the Skykomish, snohomishcd.org (Mar 14, 2024)
- Seven times size of Manhattan: the African tree-planting project making a difference, theguardian.com (Mar 13, 2024)
- Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr - the tree-planting mayor of Sierra Leone's capital Freetown, BBC News (Mar 04, 2024)
- She moved me’: the UK dancers inspired by India’s 112-year-old environmentalist, theguardian.com (Mar 03, 2024)
- Food forests grown by Nile Basin farmers restore wetlands and bring back a turtle, news.mongabay.com (Feb 28, 2024)
- Community seed banks offer hope for the Amazon across Brazil’s soy belt, 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)
- Reverse in endangered fish’s slide to extinction helped by Indigenous effort in Bangladesh, news.mongabay.com (Jan 19, 2024)
- How fig trees could revolutionise reforestation and tourism in Borneo, chinadialogue.net (Jan 19, 2024)
2023
- Billions have been raised to restore forests, with little success. Here’s the missing ingredient, theconversation.com (Dec 07, 2023)
- ‘It is all about listening and sharing’: Indigenous solutions to the carbon divide, theguardian.com (Nov 22, 2023)
- Pala’wan Indigenous community’s organic farming protecting a Philippine hotspot, news.mongabay.com (Nov 16, 2023)
- The ‘Power of Mama’ fight Borneo’s wildfires with all-woman crew, news.mongabay.com (Nov 10, 2023)
- Kenya declares surprise public holiday to plant trees, independent.co.uk (Nov 07, 2023)
- Chehe Community Forest Association playing a vital role in protecting and restoring Mount Kenya forest, news.mongabay.com (Nov 06, 2023)
- ‘There’s still beauty’: a national park bounces back after California’s biggest single fire, theguardian.com (Oct 23, 2023)
- São Paulo nurseries bring the city’s rare and forgotten trees back to life, news.mongabay.com (Oct 17, 2023)
- Despite severe drought, Amazon deforestation continues to slow, news.mongabay.com (Oct 13, 2023)
- Thinking Long-Term: Why We Should Bring Back Redwood Forests, e360.yale.edu (Sep 25, 2023)
- How Medellin is beating the heat with green corridors, BBC Future (Sep 23, 2023)
- US launches $1bn tree-planting scheme to mitigate effects of climate crisis, theguardian.com (Sep 14, 2023)
- Agroforestry chocolate helping save the world’s most endangered rainforest, by Liz Kimbrough, news.mongabay.com (Sep 12, 2023)
- A forest gave Cambodia’s captive elephants a new life. Now they’re paying it back, news.mongabay.com (Aug 31, 2023)
- Conservationists work to restore last remnant of a once-great Ugandan forest, news.mongabay.com (Aug 25, 2023)
- Ecuadorians vote to halt oil drilling in biodiverse Amazonian national park, theguardian.com (Aug 21, 2023)
- India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years – here are the results, theconversation.com (Aug 10, 2023)
- Defuelling California’s wildfires with sheep, chinadialogue.net (Aug 10, 2023) — If rotated wisely, sheep and cattle can graze away the fuel of deadly wildfires in the American West
- ‘More in hope’: lessons from our tiny reforestation scheme in the Amazon, theguardian.com (Aug 03, 2023)
- New grant program asks residents to ‘throw shade,’ foster climate resiliency in Flint, flintbeat.com (Aug 02, 2023)
- An indigenous solution to deforestation in the Amazon, courier.unesco.org (Jul 05, 2023)
- Landmark court win upholds protection for Gliders and Victoria’s forests, eastgippsland.net.au (Jun 27, 2023)
- The Indigenous forest collective restoring a corner of California, Positive News (Jun 20, 2023)
- Canada’s fires are getting fiercer – and rebuilding is becoming a challenge, The Guardian (Jun 19, 2023)
- Africa’s land and forest restoration initiative gathers pace in Malawi, news.mongabay.com (Jun 07, 2023)
- How We Lit Our California Homestead on Fire, medium.com (May 03, 2023)
- Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The rich UK has no excuse for such complete failure, George Monbiot, The Guardian (Apr 21, 2023)
- Small Farmers and Entrepreneurs Offer New Hope for Africa’s Degraded Lands, wri.org (Apr 16, 2023)
- Food forests are bringing shade and sustenance to US cities, one parcel of land at a time, The Conversation (Apr 04, 2023)
- A "Miyawaki forest" takes two decades to mature at the heart of a city. In Lisbon, it's burgeoning in two years, The Daily Alternative (Apr 02, 2023)
- ‘We’ve come so far’: how one village rose from the ashes of a wildfire, Positive News (Feb 24, 2023)
- Ireland has lost almost all of its native forests – here’s how to bring them back, The Conversation (Feb 24, 2023)
- Saving Kenya’s Oloolua Forest, China Dialogue (Jan 30, 2023)
- Sierra Madre: Fighting to save what's left of a vital rainforest, BBC News (Jan 05, 2023)
2022
- The Senegal man on a mission to plant five million trees, BBC News (Dec 28, 2022)
- Lula’s victory in Brazil comes just in time to save the Amazon – can he do it?, The Conversation (Nov 02, 2022)
- Mangrove forests: How 40 million Australian trees died of thirst, BBC News (Aug 14, 2022)
- How Gabon saved its forest elephants, BBC News (Jun 19, 2022)
- Trees, tools and training, Tree Aid (May 11, 2022) — Tree Aid working with entrepreneurs to grow sustainable businesses in Africa's drylands
- Forests in the tropics are critical for tackling climate change – yet the people showing how are being exploited, The Conversation (Apr 28, 2022) — Fair deal for field workers needed
- Amazon rainforest reaching tipping point, researchers say, BBC News (Mar 08, 2022)
- The "Great Green Wall" of the Sahel, promising to halt the Sahara's advance, inspires both science and arts, The Alternative UK (Feb 20, 2022)
- Amazon deforestation: Record high destruction of trees in January, BBC News (Feb 12, 2022)
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