Ecosystem restoration conventionally focuses on ecological targets. However, while
ecological targets are crucial to mobilizing political, social, and financial capital, they do not …

Forest covers 4.06 billion hectares (ha) or 31% of the total land area worldwide, where
93%(3.75 billion ha) are natural regenerating forests and the remaining 7%(294 million ha) …

As of 2020, the world has an estimated 290 million ha of planted forests and this number is
continuously increasing. Of these, 131 million ha are monospecific planted forests under …

Scientists, corporations, mystics, and movie stars have convinced policymakers around the
world that a massive campaign to plant trees should be an essential element of global …

Many countries have adopted large-scale tree planting programmes as a climate mitigation
strategy and to support local livelihoods. We evaluate a series of large-scale tree planting …

Forest landscape restoration has emerged as a key strategy to sequester atmospheric
carbon and conserve biodiversity while providing livelihood co-benefits for indigenous …

Highlights•Majority forecasts for feeding the future global population predict an increase in a
croplands at the expense of forests and pastures.•A third of the forecasts shows that it is …

The massive release of captive-bred native species (“intentional release”) is a pervasive
method to enhance wild populations of commercial and recreational species. However, such …

Land use change (LUC) is one of the main factors of economic development, and humans
have been changing land use for many years. Agricultural land conversion (ALC) is …

Nowadays, climate change is recognized as one of the biggest problems the world is facing,
posing a potential threat to the environment and almost all aspects of human life. Since the …