2014-2021

COP26: World leaders promise to end deforestation by 2030, Nov 2, 2021...^[1]

• Natural Forests First, Nov 2^[2]
• Why tackling deforestation is so important for slowing climate change, Nov 1, 2021...^[3]
• Up to half of world’s wild tree species could be at risk of extinction, Sep 1, 2021...^[4]
• The 'messy' alternative to tree-planting, May 25, 2021...^[5]
• Forest the size of France regrown worldwide over 20 years, study finds, May 11, 2021...^[6]
• Brazilian Amazon released more carbon than it absorbed over past 10 years, Apr 30, 2021...^[7]

References

• Amazon deforestation surges to 12-year high under Bolsonaro, Nov 30, 2020^[1]

The "Generation Restoration" responds with brilliant projects to plant one trillion trees across the planet^[2] Nov 5, 2020

• With social media and academics, Thai villagers save ancestral forest.^[3] Sep 29, 2020
• They stopped a toxic relief road. So why not use that energy to establish a forest commons? An empowering tale from North Yorkshire^[4] Jul 29, 2020
• 'Sweet City': the Costa Rica suburb that gave citizenship to bees, plants and trees^[5] Apr 29
• Planting 1 trillion trees might not actually be a good idea.^[6] Jan 31

References

• Amazon rainforest 'close to irreversible tipping point'.^[1] Oct 23
• Indonesia haze causes sky to turn blood red.^[2] Sep 23
• World 'losing battle against deforestation'.^[3] Sep 12
• Amazon deforestation accelerating towards unrecoverable 'tipping point'.^[4] Jul 25
• Is there a zebra in your community woodland?^[5] Apr 24

Norway Is The First Country In The World To Ban Deforestation, More Countries Need To Follow Suit.^[6] Apr 5

References

We need to bring back the wildwoods of Britain to fight climate change, Isabella Tree.^[1] Nov 26

• 2,000 new trees for San Francisco - and less carbon in the air, too, Apr 19^[2]
• Paris Plans a Suburban Forest Five Times the Size of Central Park, Feb 14^[3]
• A eureka moment for the planet: we’re finally planting trees again, Feb 13, John Vidal^[4]

References

100m trees to be planted till 2021 under Green Pakistan’s initiative, Dec 3, 2017^[1]

• New Zealand Government to Plant 100 Million Trees Yearly, Oct 24, 2017^[2]
• Regreening the planet could cut as much carbon as halting oil use, Oct 17, 2017^[3]
• India plants 66 million trees in 12 hours as part of record-breaking environmental campaign, Jul 3, 2017^[4]
• China constructs first Forest City to fight air pollution, Jun 26^[5]

#50MillionTrees: how young people are fighting deforestation in Tanzania, Jun 5^[6]

• Stressed street trees: mapping the urban forests to save them – and us, Mar 27^[7]
• Meet the teen planting 150 trees for every person on Earth, Mar 11^[8]
• National Community Conservation Resilience Initiative workshops held in Africa, Feb 22^[9]
• Indonesian president hands over management of forests to indigenous people, Feb 20^[10]

References

• Mapping Urban Trees in 11 Cities, Dec 30, 2016...^[1]
• Collect Earth: Google and FAO launch new forest tool, Nov 11, 2016...^[2]
• NASA scientist is using drones to plant 1 billion trees per year, May 24, 2016...^[3]
• The world's 3 trillion trees, mapped, September 16, 2015...^[4]
• New map reveals ‘astronomical’ scale of human impact on forests, September 2, 2015...^[5]
• New online tool tracks tree loss in 'near real time', February 21, 2014...^[6]

References