What do you think of when you hear the word ‘desertification’?
Continue readingDefending land against desertification and drought
The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration has begun!
Two of WeForest’s projects are among the Founding 50 Initiatives chosen from all around the world by the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which officially starts tomorrow, World Environment Day.
Continue readingTransparency is key when choosing a restoration project
How do you know which restoration projects to support? A new database from Mongabay aims to help funders evaluate tree-planting initiatives.
Continue readingToday is World Soil Day!
Soil is more than dirt – it’s home to 25% of our planet’s biodiversity. Organisms found in the soil are essential for plant growth and carbon sequestration.
Continue readingCoffee is helping to reforest the Amazon
The Apuí Agroforestry Coffee Initiative in Brazil is set to be scaled up. WeForest and the WeForest and The Institute for Conservation and Sustainable Development of the Amazon (IDESAM) have teamed up to bring this pioneering venture into sustainable rural production to new levels.
Continue readingThe forests are burning in the Amazon again…
It’s the dry season in Brazil, and forest fires are spreading again. Though some can be caused naturally by factors such as lightning strikes, most are actually started by farmers and loggers clearing land for crops or grazing.
Continue readingFlux tower experiment is reaching for the skies
The first flux tower ever to be built over a restoration forest is now 3.5m tall, and has a complete lightning rod system and meteorological station installed so far.
Continue readingMeasuring restoration success needs a global standard
How will we know if our forest restoration efforts have been successful? The World Resources Institute suggests that a robust global atlas to track progress in tree restoration is needed.
Continue readingAgroforestry: a pathway to restore Brazil’s Atlantic Forest
Some new research has shown that agroforestry could be an important part of landscape-scale approaches to restore Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, a biodiversity hotspot and the country’s most endangered biome.
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