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Restoration

Restoration

Wildfire prevention and risk reduction for children’s health and wellbeing

The 2015 El Nino event in Indonesia triggered what some have called “the worst environmental disaster of the 21st century.”

 

Everyone’s a winner: The smart way of doing business

The total amount of degraded forest and other productive land in the world today is an area roughly the size of South America.

 

Ann Jeannette Glauber – GLF: Peatlands Matter

A conversation with Ann Jeannette Glauber, Lead Environment Specialist at the World Bank, during the Global Landscapes Forum thematic event Peatlands Matter

 

Guardians of the forest

Abdul Agus Nuraini, Muara Siran community member, speaks during the Forum's plenary session on community perspectives and priorities in peatlands.

 

Preserving precious peat in the Congo Basin

The DRC has the biggest forest in Central Africa. The peatland discovered in the Central Basin is important for its significant biodiversity.

 
Emmanuela Shinta

If we’re to protect vital peatlands, we must also protect peatland communities

Protecting peatlands also means identifying ways for people that live and work around these areas to sustain their families.

 

When thinking of forests, don’t forget the value of trees

As part of the Bonn Challenge, some 40 countries, sub-national jurisdictions, and non-governmental entities have pledged to restore forest landscapes.

 

Getting down and dirty in degraded lands

Tropical peatlands are massive carbon sinks. But what happens when they are depleted of the water that sustains them, or subject to other land-use changes?

 

Soil management and land restoration vital to meeting climate change and sustainable development targets

There is increasing recognition that more integrated approaches to ecosystem health assessments are needed to meet the targets of the 2030 Agenda.

 

Peat beneath their feet

What do a hairy-nosed otter, a Sumatran tiger and a white-backed Malayan Tapir have in common? Not only are they some of the rarest animals on planet earth, they spend most of their days snuffling through peatlands. “Conversations about protecting peatlands tend to focus on the carbon they store that can be released into our […]

 

A twentieth century landscape: The fallout ghost-scape

What do you do with a radioactive landscape? We take a look in to the managed exclusion zones around radiation-heavy sites.

 

Peatlands: A global warming game-changer

Not widely known, peat is the world’s largest terrestrial organic soil carbon stock. Peatlands are found on every continent and in most countries.

 

Cool insights for a hot world: Trees and forests recycle water and modify climate

The direct effects of trees on the climate via rainfall and cooling may be more important than the well-studied effects through the global carbon balance.

 

New Forest 500 analysis shows that 2020 deforestation goals are unlikely to be achieved

Global Canopy Programme’s Forest 500 initiative concludes that more action is needed to help companies achieve deforestation-free supply chains.

 
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