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Living in four dimensions, conscious in three. Taxonomy, climate, ecology, spatial phylogenetics and geometry.
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Serra-Marin et al. develop an Automated Camera System (ACS) that integrates Raspberry Pi hardware with YOLOv5, to detect pollinators in plant communities 🐝 🌱 Read more here 🌍 🧪 👇
Serra-Marin et al. develop an Automated Camera System (ACS) that integrates Raspberry Pi hardware with YOLOv5, to detect pollinators in plant communities 🐝 🌱 Read more here 🌍 🧪 👇
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November 19, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Serra-Marin et al. develop an Automated Camera System (ACS) that integrates Raspberry Pi hardware with YOLOv5, to detect pollinators in plant communities 🐝 🌱 Read more here 🌍 🧪 👇
Serra-Marin et al. develop an Automated Camera System (ACS) that integrates Raspberry Pi hardware with YOLOv5, to detect pollinators in plant communities 🐝 🌱 Read more here 🌍 🧪 👇
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🌵 In tropical dry forests, drought avoiders (isohydric) thrive in dry sites with fast growth, while tolerators (anisohydric) dominate wetter areas, boosting biomass non-linearly 👇
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November 19, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🌵 In tropical dry forests, drought avoiders (isohydric) thrive in dry sites with fast growth, while tolerators (anisohydric) dominate wetter areas, boosting biomass non-linearly 👇
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New Comment:
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Twenty-five years of misinterpreting the biodiversity hotspot approach - Nature Ecology & Evolution
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science. But its real-world impact is poorly doc...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New Comment:
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A quarter of a century after its publication, the biodiversity hotspot concept remains one of the most cited and influential frameworks in conservation science, but its real-world impact is poorly documented in peer-reviewed literature www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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More than half of Cambodia and Laos’ tree cover loss in 2024 was recorded inside protected areas, Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn reports.
In Cambodia, 56% of the nation’s tree cover loss was recorded within its protected area network last year. In Laos, the figure was 64%.
In Cambodia, 56% of the nation’s tree cover loss was recorded within its protected area network last year. In Laos, the figure was 64%.
Most Cambodia & Laos tree cover loss in 2024 happened inside protected areas
More than half of Cambodia and Laos’ tree cover loss in 2024 was recorded inside protected areas, Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn reports. The findings were a result of Mongabay’s analysis of satellite data…
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October 28, 2025 at 6:18 PM
More than half of Cambodia and Laos’ tree cover loss in 2024 was recorded inside protected areas, Mongabay’s Gerald Flynn reports.
In Cambodia, 56% of the nation’s tree cover loss was recorded within its protected area network last year. In Laos, the figure was 64%.
In Cambodia, 56% of the nation’s tree cover loss was recorded within its protected area network last year. In Laos, the figure was 64%.
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Yan et al. develop a new wood–leaf separation algorithm designed to achieve both high classification accuracy and structural completeness from the trunk to high-order branches🌳🍃 Read the article here 👇
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Yan et al. develop a new wood–leaf separation algorithm designed to achieve both high classification accuracy and structural completeness from the trunk to high-order branches🌳🍃 Read the article here 👇
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October 30, 2025 at 10:01 AM
📖Published📖
Yan et al. develop a new wood–leaf separation algorithm designed to achieve both high classification accuracy and structural completeness from the trunk to high-order branches🌳🍃 Read the article here 👇
🌍 🧪
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Yan et al. develop a new wood–leaf separation algorithm designed to achieve both high classification accuracy and structural completeness from the trunk to high-order branches🌳🍃 Read the article here 👇
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Mauritius is home to nearly 250 kinds of corals, but saw 80% of its corals bleached in the latest mass bleaching caused in part by climate change.
The island nation's predicament highlights concerns raised by scientists who question whether coral restoration works in the face of mounting threats.
The island nation's predicament highlights concerns raised by scientists who question whether coral restoration works in the face of mounting threats.
Mauritius rethinks coral restoration as reefs suffer from another mass bleaching
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius — Seeing coral reefs can color one’s monochrome view of the ocean forever. In the pink of health — and red, blue, green and purple — corals resemble underwater fireworks,…
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November 1, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Mauritius is home to nearly 250 kinds of corals, but saw 80% of its corals bleached in the latest mass bleaching caused in part by climate change.
The island nation's predicament highlights concerns raised by scientists who question whether coral restoration works in the face of mounting threats.
The island nation's predicament highlights concerns raised by scientists who question whether coral restoration works in the face of mounting threats.
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A UK-based charity has installed solar photovoltaic systems in all 9,000 households of a rural village in Malawi.
The nonprofit has trained local technicians to maintain the systems — and says it retrieves damaged or retired batteries, as no system for safely recycling these exists there currently.
The nonprofit has trained local technicians to maintain the systems — and says it retrieves damaged or retired batteries, as no system for safely recycling these exists there currently.
In Malawi, a rural community shines bright with 100% solar power milestone
LILONGWE — Four years ago, a U.K.-based charity, SolarAid, set out to provide solar-powered electricity to every home in Kasakula, a village around 90 kilometers, or 56 miles, from Malawi’s capital,…
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November 1, 2025 at 11:10 PM
A UK-based charity has installed solar photovoltaic systems in all 9,000 households of a rural village in Malawi.
The nonprofit has trained local technicians to maintain the systems — and says it retrieves damaged or retired batteries, as no system for safely recycling these exists there currently.
The nonprofit has trained local technicians to maintain the systems — and says it retrieves damaged or retired batteries, as no system for safely recycling these exists there currently.
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Working with raster + vector together in Python? 🗺️🌍🐍
Chapter 5 of geocompx talks about:
- Cropping & masking rasters with vectors
- Extracting raster values via vector data
- Raster ↔️ vector conversion (polygonize & rasterize)
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#GeoPython #Python #GISchat
Chapter 5 of geocompx talks about:
- Cropping & masking rasters with vectors
- Extracting raster values via vector data
- Raster ↔️ vector conversion (polygonize & rasterize)
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#GeoPython #Python #GISchat
5 Raster-vector interactions – Geocomputation with Python
An introductory resource for working with geographic data in Python
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November 2, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Working with raster + vector together in Python? 🗺️🌍🐍
Chapter 5 of geocompx talks about:
- Cropping & masking rasters with vectors
- Extracting raster values via vector data
- Raster ↔️ vector conversion (polygonize & rasterize)
👉 py.geocompx.org/05-raster-ve...
#GeoPython #Python #GISchat
Chapter 5 of geocompx talks about:
- Cropping & masking rasters with vectors
- Extracting raster values via vector data
- Raster ↔️ vector conversion (polygonize & rasterize)
👉 py.geocompx.org/05-raster-ve...
#GeoPython #Python #GISchat
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Matthew Jones of University of East Anglia, co-author of the State of Wildfires report, said the excess in carbon emissions caused by wildfires was akin to the emissions of more than 200 countries: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
CO2 from wildfires increases by 9% as climate crisis supercharges infernos
Greenhouse gases from wildfires at sixth highest level on record after blazes in large areas of the Americas and Africa
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Matthew Jones of University of East Anglia, co-author of the State of Wildfires report, said the excess in carbon emissions caused by wildfires was akin to the emissions of more than 200 countries: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
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🌱 Studying seeds is vital for work on restoring lost species to semi-natural UK grasslands
UKCEH plant ecologist @wagnermarkus.bsky.social chats to the Naked Scientists for their podcast on 25 years of @rbgkew.bsky.social's Millennium Seed Bank #MSB25
www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak... 🧪
UKCEH plant ecologist @wagnermarkus.bsky.social chats to the Naked Scientists for their podcast on 25 years of @rbgkew.bsky.social's Millennium Seed Bank #MSB25
www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak... 🧪
Frozen Flora: 25 years of the Millennium Seed Bank
Preserving and restoring rare and important plant species...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
🌱 Studying seeds is vital for work on restoring lost species to semi-natural UK grasslands
UKCEH plant ecologist @wagnermarkus.bsky.social chats to the Naked Scientists for their podcast on 25 years of @rbgkew.bsky.social's Millennium Seed Bank #MSB25
www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak... 🧪
UKCEH plant ecologist @wagnermarkus.bsky.social chats to the Naked Scientists for their podcast on 25 years of @rbgkew.bsky.social's Millennium Seed Bank #MSB25
www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/nak... 🧪
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A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."
Destabilization of Earth system tipping elements - Nature Geoscience
A review of observation-based evidence suggests that four interconnected Earth system tipping elements have moved towards their critical thresholds, highlighting the need for better monitoring and increased mitigation efforts.
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October 8, 2025 at 6:34 PM
A new Nature study on the four horsemen of the climate-tipping-points apocalypse: "the Greenland Ice Sheet, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, the South American monsoon system and the Amazon rainforest."
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Exceptional heat in AUSTRALIA
In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas.
In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October.
Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C
In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas.
In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October.
Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C
October 10, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Exceptional heat in AUSTRALIA
In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas.
In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October.
Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C
In New South Wales max. temperatures yesterday >35C and today tropical nights in some areas.
In fact, the minimum of 20.4C at Mount Seaview is the highest ever recorded in October.
Next days heat wave in Western Australia with up to 44C/45C
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🎉🆕📰🎉: Everchanging range: how the changing environment has influenced the genetic diversity and differentiation of an iconic North American palm species
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October 10, 2025 at 7:15 AM
🎉🆕📰🎉: Everchanging range: how the changing environment has influenced the genetic diversity and differentiation of an iconic North American palm species
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On Bikar Atoll and Jemo Islet of the Marshall Islands, seabirds are returning, forests are regrowing and coral reefs are recovering. And it all stems from the removal of a single invasive pest: rats.
Removing rats helps revive forests, birds & coral in the Marshall Islands
On Bikar Atoll and Jemo Islet of the Marshall Islands, seabirds are returning, forests are regrowing and coral reefs are recovering. And it all stems from the removal of a single invasive pest: rats.…
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October 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
On Bikar Atoll and Jemo Islet of the Marshall Islands, seabirds are returning, forests are regrowing and coral reefs are recovering. And it all stems from the removal of a single invasive pest: rats.
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Here, the potential of horizontal gene transfer detection methods were explored, based on phylogenies, to detect & quantify ghost diversity. What did they find? Read the full paper to find out (2/2)👇🧪🌍
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@damdevienne.bsky.social
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Gene flow can reveal ghost lineages
Abstract. Ghost species, encompassing extinct, unknown, and unsampled taxa, vastly outnumber those typically included in phylogenetic analyses. This hidden
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September 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Here, the potential of horizontal gene transfer detection methods were explored, based on phylogenies, to detect & quantify ghost diversity. What did they find? Read the full paper to find out (2/2)👇🧪🌍
doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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@damdevienne.bsky.social
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Analysis of crop yields, farmer income and bird species abundances identifies multiple positive outcomes of a large-scale Indian government-incentivized agroecology initiative. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
India’s agroecology programme, ‘Zero Budget Natural Farming’, delivers biodiversity and economic benefits without lowering yields - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Analysis of crop yields, farmer income and bird species abundances identifies multiple positive outcomes of a large-scale Indian government-incentivized agroecology initiative.
www.nature.com
September 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Analysis of crop yields, farmer income and bird species abundances identifies multiple positive outcomes of a large-scale Indian government-incentivized agroecology initiative. 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Trees improve nutrition through direct consumption of fruits, boost crop production and potential sales income, and provide cooking fuel.
Researchers recommend including food-producing trees in Africa’s reforestation programs and shifting agricultural policies to include diverse, nutritious crops.
Researchers recommend including food-producing trees in Africa’s reforestation programs and shifting agricultural policies to include diverse, nutritious crops.
Growing trees on farms boosts nutrition in rural Malawi
Planting fruit trees on farms improves dietary quality, according to new research from Malawi that tracked nearly 1,000 households over 10 years. The study, published in Conservation Letters, found…
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September 19, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Trees improve nutrition through direct consumption of fruits, boost crop production and potential sales income, and provide cooking fuel.
Researchers recommend including food-producing trees in Africa’s reforestation programs and shifting agricultural policies to include diverse, nutritious crops.
Researchers recommend including food-producing trees in Africa’s reforestation programs and shifting agricultural policies to include diverse, nutritious crops.
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I am pleased to share two exciting opportunities to join our excellent Millennium Seed Bank Partnership team in Madagascar: Senior Botanist, and Restoration Technician. Please share widely!
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
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September 5, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I am pleased to share two exciting opportunities to join our excellent Millennium Seed Bank Partnership team in Madagascar: Senior Botanist, and Restoration Technician. Please share widely!
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
www.portaljob-madagascar.com/emploi/view/...
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“Much as they have paid the price for their promotion of lies regarding the 2020 election and voting machines, it’s time for outfits that attack science and scientists to pay the price for the threat they pose to human civilisation.”
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Science is under siege from weaponised disinformation – posing a threat to human civilisation | Michael Mann and Peter Hotez
From Covid misinformation to climate denialism, understanding the divergent paths of Australia and the US can help us fight the powerful forces that threaten our world
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September 9, 2025 at 4:12 AM
“Much as they have paid the price for their promotion of lies regarding the 2020 election and voting machines, it’s time for outfits that attack science and scientists to pay the price for the threat they pose to human civilisation.”
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Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
May 10, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Bottom trawling is horribly destructive to coastal ocean ecosystems, and deep-sea mining will do the same to the open ocean. #OceanFilm 🌊
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This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Bottom trawling to continue in English protected waters, government rules
Defra says blanket ban on ‘destructive’ fishing practice disproportionate as MPs urge minister to reconsider
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September 9, 2025 at 6:15 AM
This is infuriating. What is the point of a Marine Protected Area if trawlers are allowed to keep ploughing it?
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Yet again, the government has succumbed to commercial lobbying.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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[PODCAST]
Wealth inequality is a primary culprit behind the ecological & environmental collapse of societies over the past 12,000 years.
Today, instead of an isolated collapse, we face a global one, says Luke Kemp, a researcher at University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
Wealth inequality is a primary culprit behind the ecological & environmental collapse of societies over the past 12,000 years.
Today, instead of an isolated collapse, we face a global one, says Luke Kemp, a researcher at University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
To save humanity and nature we must tackle wealth inequality, says Cambridge researcher
Wealth inequality is a primary culprit behind the ecological and environmental collapse of societies over the past 12,000 years, which have come to be dominated by a small circle of elites hoarding…
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September 4, 2025 at 11:10 PM
[PODCAST]
Wealth inequality is a primary culprit behind the ecological & environmental collapse of societies over the past 12,000 years.
Today, instead of an isolated collapse, we face a global one, says Luke Kemp, a researcher at University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
Wealth inequality is a primary culprit behind the ecological & environmental collapse of societies over the past 12,000 years.
Today, instead of an isolated collapse, we face a global one, says Luke Kemp, a researcher at University of Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk.
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The daily destruction of nature’s carbon stores is happening right before our eyes, as forests are ravaged by catastrophic wildfires and vast tracts of wildlands are cleared for agriculture.
But even greater stores of carbon lie hidden beneath our feet, and they too are under threat.
But even greater stores of carbon lie hidden beneath our feet, and they too are under threat.
Soil carbon: Crucial ally or potential threat to net-zero commitments?
The daily destruction of nature’s carbon stores is happening right before our eyes, as forests are ravaged by catastrophic wildfires and vast tracts of wildlands are cleared for agriculture. But even…
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September 5, 2025 at 11:17 AM
The daily destruction of nature’s carbon stores is happening right before our eyes, as forests are ravaged by catastrophic wildfires and vast tracts of wildlands are cleared for agriculture.
But even greater stores of carbon lie hidden beneath our feet, and they too are under threat.
But even greater stores of carbon lie hidden beneath our feet, and they too are under threat.
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Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done.
A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits, while avoiding negative trade-offs.
A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits, while avoiding negative trade-offs.
New study pinpoints tree-planting hotspots for climate and biodiversity gains
Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but scientists warn that planting trees indiscriminately isn’t effective. Its success depends on how and, crucially, where it’s done. A…
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September 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done.
A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits, while avoiding negative trade-offs.
A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits, while avoiding negative trade-offs.
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Half of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in Liberia, but in 2024, it lost more than 94,000 acres of humid primary forest, according to Global Forest Watch.
A new project will make “area-based payments” to 28 communities in exchange for commitments to protect some of their customary forests.
A new project will make “area-based payments” to 28 communities in exchange for commitments to protect some of their customary forests.
Liberia has a new plan to protect its rainforests. Can it work?
Around half of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in the small coastal nation of Liberia. They’re home to species like western chimpanzees and pygmy hippos, valuable stands of hardwood — and…
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September 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Half of West Africa’s remaining rainforests are in Liberia, but in 2024, it lost more than 94,000 acres of humid primary forest, according to Global Forest Watch.
A new project will make “area-based payments” to 28 communities in exchange for commitments to protect some of their customary forests.
A new project will make “area-based payments” to 28 communities in exchange for commitments to protect some of their customary forests.