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Niger is a surprising success story in Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) “I flew from Ethiopia, and you can see it when you fly over the border from Chad to Niger,” says Dr. Kelechi Eleanya, an instructor at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. “From the plane window I noticed the colors shift […]
Africa’s degraded landscapes may have a greener future Niamey is a city of warm hues: red, cracked, sandy soils are the basis for the red bricks that form most of the infrastructure of Niger’s capital. It’s a city where only the hardiest of plants can manage to set down roots, but — like many of […]
How reforestation and afforestation can serve people and climate.
Forest and Landscape Restoration (FLR) may have an ideal form, but there are barriers keeping it from being wholly realized in many cases.
With its second annual conference upcoming, the ambitious African Forest Landscape Initiative has already begun to change the face of land use in Africa.
Peatlands are areas of carbon-rich histosol which have become a hot-button issue on a warming planet.
Peatlands in the spotlight at the IUFRO Congress in Germany By Suzanna Dayne, originally published on Forests News This week the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, IUFRO, is holding its 125th Anniversary Congress in Freiburg, Germany. IUFRO is a global network that promotes international cooperation among more than 15,000 scientists from more than 110 countries. During […]
A new body of scientific work indicates trees may be a first defense in the battle against disasters like hurricanes and cyclones.
Review of almost 17,000 documents finds holes in the literature on both successes and failures.
The GLF team caught up with a multi-stakeholder initiative during a week of intensive co-design workshops after the GLF: Peatlands Matter.
The Legado das Águas – Reserva Votorantim (Water Legacy – Votorantim Reserve) arose because forests would guarantee the protection of the springs.
The Marketplace directly supports innovations from across Europe that have been previously funded by the EU, but still need to achieve market adoption.
On behalf of the German Ministry of Environment and the Ministry of Economic Cooperation, State Secretary Jochen Flasbarth pledges support.
Photo by Cathy Watson/ICRAF Ethiopia is suffering from severe drought. But there is water in Gergera. Twenty years of restoring its hills and valley has brought life back to this area in the state of Tigray. The work has been painstaking, complex and multidimensional, and continues to this day. But its hard-won results offer up […]
Energy sprawl could result in impacts to 20% of the remaining natural lands in the world, posing a major threat to global biodiversity.