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Originally posted on IUCN’s blog. Reposted by the World Resources Institute (WRI). By Aaron Reuben, IUCN, and Kathleen Buckingham, World Resources Institute. Three short stories of landscape restoration in the western United States show that restoration can mean a lot more than just planting trees. Sometimes it means cutting trees, setting fires, and unleashing destructive […]

  The World Parks Congress 2014 in Sydney, Australia, has drawn attention to the problems of indigenous peoples and protected areas and to the nexus of food security and protected areas. The organizer of the World Parks Congress, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), said in a press release that significant work remains to be done, […]

By Zhang Yan, watershed program coordinator at IUCN China, and Aaron Reuben, communications officer at IUCN Originally posted on China Dialogue The time may have come for a new approach to restoring degraded lands in China. The country has many more trees than it did 40 years ago – several million hectares of forest cover have […]

Originally published at Thomson Reuters Sustainability The author Tim Christophersen is Senior Programme Officer, Forests and Climate Change, at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). UNEP is a coordinating partner of the Global Landscapes Forum and just joined forces with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) to reforest 150 million hectares of land – […]

See more session details This presentation describes several projects concerning landscape restoration, how they were determined and conducted.