#forestrestoration — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #forestrestoration, aggregated by home.social.
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Meet the #IndigenousWomen restoring #Kenya’ s #MauForest — and reshaping gender roles
Juliet Akoth Ojwang
11 Aug 2026Exceprt: "Restoring forests, rebuilding livelihoods
For Nancy Letina, chairperson of Namaiyana Women’s Group within the Paran network, joining the collective in 2021 transformed not only how she viewed conservation but also her family’s economic future.
" 'Previously, as #Maasai women, we depended on our husbands for everything, even household items like salt,' Letina said. But in 2019, that changed after her husband died, leaving her as the breadwinner with the responsibility to provide for her four children.
"The first two years after losing her husband were difficult. Together with a handful of women facing similar hardships from Olomaiayana-Iltirben village in Melelo ward, Letina formed a self-help group that supported members during times of need. Their fortunes began to change when the group joined Paran and received training in #sustainable livelihood activities.
" 'We gained knowledge that showed us that every woman can also fend for herself. Today, women have their own income. We can pay school fee arrears when our children are sent home and respond to emergencies without waiting for assistance.'
"Her group currently manages a 0.2-hectare (half-acre) #TreeNursery where they grow indigenous species such as the African olive (Olea europaea subsp. africana), valued in forest restoration for supporting #biodiversity and also widely used in traditional medicine, which they periodically supply to Paran. Letina’s group has sold 10,600 indigenous tree seedlings to the organization since joining. One seedling goes for 20 shillings ($0.15). The proceeds support both members and group activities."
Learn more:
https://news.mongabay.com/2026/08/meet-the-indigenous-women-restoring-kenyas-mau-forest-and-reshaping-gender-roles/#SolarPunkSunday #ProtectTheForest #ForestRestoration #NativeTrees #TreePlanting #TraditionalMedicine #CulturalPreservation #Africa #EastAfrica #BuildingCommunity #Resiliency
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🌳 A new study has revealed that forest remnants are not 'islands' and efforts to retain their #biodiversity can be successful with certain interventions.
🐦⬛ Improving the surrounding landscapes with even modest increases in tree cover can dramatically increase a remnant's ability to retain bird species.
🐦 This is true even when the forest fragments themselves are small or isolated.
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-wildlife-friendly-landscapes-boost-biodiversity.html
#Conservation #ForestRestoration
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I figured someone, somewhere, is trying to grow food that doesn’t murder the soil. Someone has terabytes of wildlife camera monitoring and drowning in footage. Someone has a brilliant idea and absolutely no software skills or budget.
Maybe we can help.
We’re just people who can code, but maybe “just people who can code” might be exactly what someone needs right now.
We’re already collaborating with some rewilding projects, and we’d like to do more of it and meet more people trying to do things that matter.
The few people we talked to, who are fighting the important fights, are using broken tools, or no tools at all.
Maybe we can be of use to people protecting and restoring ecosystems, innovating sustainable food systems, or those tracking what’s actually happening to the living world around us.
We don’t have all the answers. I don’t even have most of the questions most days, and I’m trying my best to learn. But we’re good at software, we can build things that work, and we’d rather build things that matter.
To end this thread, I’m casting a wide net but if you’re trying to save one specific part of the world and software is the thing standing between you and doing it better—please talk to us! We want to meet you.
#OpenScience #Conservation #RestorativeAgriculture #RegenerativeAgriculture #EcologyInAction #CitizenScienc #Biodiversity
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One of the sites at Travis Wetland where we set up our invertebrate sampling yesterday was in the new southern woods.
I helped with a planting day for this back in 2014, when it was still a wet field. Now, it feels like a real forest, with a canopy well above my head and lots of wild seedlings scattered about underneath. It's amazing how quickly trees grow when the ground is always wet.
Here are two photos of the same part of the wetland in September 2014, when trees were being planted, and now. It's like magic!
Many of the trees planted here were sourced from Pūtaringamotu, Riccarton Bush, the old growth fragment of kahikatea swamp forest in central Christchurch. Pūtaringamotu is a much drier site than it was when the city was founded so it's fantastic to see a new swamp forest emerging.
(Now we just need to rein in our carbon emissions to stop the impending sea level rise that will otherwise submerge all these sites in a few centuries.)
#UrbanEcology #ForestRestoration #wetland #nz #Ōtautahi #Christchurch #nature
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Apple partners with The Conservation Fund to protect and restore California redwood forest, part of its carbon neutral goal by 2030. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate #ForestRestoration #Conservation #NatureBasedSolutions #Sustainability #NetZero
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/09/apple-launches-new-project-to-protect-and-restore-california-redwood-forest/ -
Burning the oak woodland
#LandscapePhotography
#ForestRestoration
#oakwoodlandYearly planned burn helps restore native plants and animals in an open oak woodland.
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#florestas Peter Pan 🌱🌱🌱🌱
“Alguns esforços para preservar ou reflorestar habitats naturais estão a deslocar a utilização nociva dos solos para outras partes do mundo, o que poderá conduzir a um declínio ainda mais acentuado das espécies do planeta”
#amazonia #FLR #restauroflorestal
#biodiversidade #ForestRestoration
https://www.publico.pt/2025/02/13/azul/noticia/alerta-global-fuga-biodiversidade-ja-ouviu-falar-florestas-peter-pan-2122480 -
@UP8 great to see reforesting projects in the Amazon. Now we need to wait and see if these planted forests are becoming viable ecosystems which capture the predicted amount of carbon. The article states that failure is due to monocultures, but planting cuttings also means planting genetically identical individuals...
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HT @carolannie
#Agroecology offers blueprint for #resilient farming in northern #Ghana
by Caleb Ahinakwah, 5 Dec 2024
Excerpt: "Alley cropping in practice: Healing the land
"As climatic conditions worsen, farmers in the region are turning to agroforestry techniques. One approach that has taken root, literally, in the Builsa area is alley cropping, which integrates trees with traditional farming practices. Tree Aid, an international nonprofit that works on forest and land restoration projects in Ghana and elsewhere, introduced this technique to farmers in the region in 2014. Farmers have planted rows of trees such as shea, baobab and moringa 12 meters (39 feet) apart, and continued to grow crops like millet, cowpeas and groundnuts beneath them.
"Yakubu Issah began planting baobab and shea trees on his farm five years ago. 'At first, it seemed like extra work with little reward. But now, our millet grows healthier, the soil holds water longer, and we even earn extra income by selling baobab leaves,' he said.
"He added that bees have returned, along with birds and squirrels: 'The farm feels alive again."'
#SolarPunkSunday #Agroecology #Sustainability #Agricuture #Resilience #Ecology #AgroForestry #AlleyCropping #ForestEcology #ForestRestoration #Permaculture #SustainableForestry #GardeningForPollinators #ProtectTheForests #TreeAid #Resiliency #Rewilding
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#BLABBERMOUTH
MEGADETH's DIRK VERBEUREN Brings Climate Change Fight To Metal Scene With SAVAGE LANDS
By David E. Gehlke Environmental topics in metal are nothing new — ANNIHILATOR has "Stonewall", OBITUARY made a rare topical salvo with "Don't Care" and GOJIRA has been writing about saving the whales and the oceans...#SavageLands #MEGADETH #DirkVerbeuren #ClimateChange #ForestRestoration #NaturalForests #Deforestation #MetalScene #Conservation
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#CareerOpportunities in #sales and partnership success at Vibrant Planet working at the intersection of "#science, #forestry, #policy, and tech, building a cloud-based, data-driven platform to increase the pace and scale of #ForestRestoration and reduce catastrophic #wildfire, #TreeMortality, #ForestDegradation, and #deforestation." Based in the Western US, positions are mostly remote.
https://www.vibrantplanet.net/team#careers-id
Please boost.#climate #ClimateDiary
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Restoring forests can boost global carbon capture, major study finds https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/restoring-forests-can-boost-global-carbon-capture-major-study-finds/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #Forestrestoration
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(Stefan voice) This story has everything!
-big ol trees
-promises and broken trust
-local librarian doin their thing
-sports team identifying w Bad News Bears
-elected calling their operation “smelly”
-off-record negotiations
-climate impacts
-fed legislation but uh oh a gov shutdown?#forests #climateaction #landuse #greenspace #grassroots #forestrestoration #seattle #airport
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Canada’s forests are under threat from climate change, pests, and wildfires, a new report warns. The report calls for urgent action to protect and restore the forests, which store more than 150 billion tonnes of carbon. This could help Canada meet its climate goals, support biodiversity, and create jobs.
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The Side Eye - Deeper Roots [Cyclone Gabrielle, Tairāwhiti (Gisborne), New Zealand]
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https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/28-07-2023/the-side-eye-deeper-roots <-- Spinoff Side Eye story
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https://teweu.nz/towards-an-indigenous-bioeconomy/ <-- towards an indigenous bio-economy in Tairāwhiti
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“Months after Cyclone Gabrielle smashed Tairāwhiti [Gisborne, New Zealand], locals are still cleaning up the damage. The Side Eye travels to the erosion-prone region to meet the people asking hard questions about a plan for the future…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #massmovement #climatechange #CycloneGabrielle #Tairāwhiti #Gisborne) #NewZealand #extremeweather #geomorphology #fluvial #fluvialgeomorphology #Gabrielle #cyclone #flood #flooding #water #hydrology #ecosystem #monoculture #forestry #forestry #risk #hazard #mitigation #monitoring #erosion #landslides #slumps #slips #slash #forestrestoration #pine #planning #impacts #humanimpact #publicsafety #economy #economic #governmentplanning #indigenous #Maori #firstnations #bioeconomy -
Degraded #drytropicalforest in El Salvador. Despite appearances, this patchy forest includes tree species like coyol palm, pacific mahogany, and rosewood. Areas like this represent a great opportunity for community-led forest restoration and management. #ElSalvador #conservation #forestrestoration
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Putting local communities at the heart of forest restoration https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/news/putting-local-communities-at-the-heart-of-forest-restoration/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EUnaturerestorationlaw #Forestrestoration
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Amazonian dark earth is fertile soil and a secret weapon for forest restoration. A new study reveals that it contains a unique microbial community that can accelerate the growth of native trees and plants. The researchers say that this could help speed up the recovery of degraded lands across the globe and that it could also enhance food security and biodiversity.
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RT @UNEP_Europe: Forests are global carbon stores and a critical component of the world’s #biodiversity. Ending & reversing deforestation is crucial to achieve #COP27 & #COP15 goals.
Taking action for #ForestRestoration, the @UNEP BXL team planted 300 trees in the #Arboretum Tervuren on Friday.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_ENV/status/1620373110020280323
