Forests are globally important in regulating climate and locally important in sustaining communities and supporting biodiversity. But they, and the people who depend on them, are under increasing pressure.
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Aligning restoration commitments could boost global land health – IUCN report
06.09.2019By aligning land restoration commitments countries could bring more degraded land back to health, according to a new IUCN report launched today at the ongoing Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification in New Delhi.
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The Restoration Tracker: an interview
03.09.2019Making a pledge to the Bonn Challenge to bring landscapes under restoration is an important first step, but that may actually be the easiest part. The intertwined, complex moving parts between making that pledge and actually restoring landscapes to a...
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Cracking open a better source of oil
30.08.2019Palm oil dominates the headlines, and for good reason. It’s a commodity that many of us depend on, yet it takes its toll on whole landscapes – famously triggering the destruction of diverse forests to convert into palm plantations. There is no single solution...
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Reviving land and restoring landscapes
Gichuki, Leah, Brouwer, Rens, Davies, Jonathan, Vidal, Adriana, Kuzee, Mirjam, Magero, Chris, Walter, Sven, Lara, Pedro, Oragbade, Christiana, Gilbey, Ben
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A landscape for everyone
Blomley, Tom, Walters, Gretchen
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Second Bonn Challenge progress report
Dave, Radhika, Saint-Laurent, Carole, Murray, Lara, Antunes Daldegan, Gabriel, Brouwer, Rens, de Mattos Scaramuzza, Carlos Alberto, Raes, Leander, Simonit, Silvio, Catapan, Marisete, García Contreras, Gerardo, Ndoli, Alain, Karangwa, C., Perera, Naalin, Hingorani, Swati, Pearson, Tim
