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Restoration: It’s About More than Just the Trees

26 May 2019

By Robert Winterbottom 


This is the first installment of WRI’s blog series, New Perspectives on Restoration. The series aims to share WRI’s views on restoration, dispel myths, and explore restoration opportunities throughout the world.


Almost half of the world’s original forests have been cleared or degraded. So naturally, most people think of the “forest restoration” movement as an effort to re-plant these lost trees.


Securing rights of indigenous peoples and local communities may curb global warming

13 December 2018
Juan Pablo Sarmiento Barletti

We cannot restore tropical forests without restoring the rights of their traditional owners.


Implementing a coordinated global response to curb demand for energy and eliminate further deforestation would reduce the need to deploy artificial carbon dioxide removal technologies, according to a decisive report from the U.N. scientific panel on climate change.


Land Rights Are the Invisible Investment Risk Too Many Ignore

28 August 2018
Laura Notess
PeterVeit

Land conflicts can be fatal for burgeoning agribusiness or other enterprises located in rural regions, but many companies have limited knowledge of how to anticipate and evaluate land-related risk. This is particularly true for land held under collective arrangements by Indigenous peoples or other communities, which is seldom formally documented.


 


Vacant Land, or Invisible Risk?


Educating Changemakers About Sextortion in Land Governance

08 August 2018
AmaniMhinda

Sextortion: referring to a form of blackmail in which sexual information or images are used to extort sexual favors from the victim. One of the biggest challenges for those working in the land and natural resources sector, has been drawing attention to the fact that this happens in our sector, too and most importantly, that something needs to be done about it. 

Lost World by Kalyanee Mam

18 July 2018

 

 

As Singapore dredges sand out from beneath Cambodia’s mangrove forests, an ecosystem, a communal way of life, and one woman’s relationship to her beloved home are faced with the threat of erasure.