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Amid a multitude of trails with trees that reach dozens of feet overhead, conservationists with Casa del Agua lead tours and tell stories about the forests planted over three decades.
Environment
Conservationists focus on community reforestation efforts to save Mexico’s wetlands
Views from the Cedars of God, a 25-acre forest preserve just six miles from the monastery. Situated in the Kadisha Valley, the site represents one of the last remaining pieces of old growth cedar forest in the country. Some of the trees are believed to be
Climate Change
These monks are on a mission to protect Lebanon’s sacred cedar trees — before it’s too late
An image of a professional tree planter hard at work in British Colombia.
Environment
Professional tree planting: ‘It’s a combination between industrial labor and high-intensity sport’
The Nature Conservancy hopes to plant perhaps 100,000 native agave and pine trees in the forests around Monterrey, Mexico’s third-largest metro area.
Business
Coke and Pepsi, gardening together in Mexican mountains to preserve urban water
A Madagascar Biodiversity Project poster illustrates the symbiotic relationship between the black and white ruffed lemur and the forests they live in, centered on food and poop. The project aims to use lemur poop to help restore forest habitat for the ben
Environment
Lemur poop might save Madagascar’s forests — and economy
Environment
Highly touted REDD program still looking for footing in Indonesia, four years later
Environment
On eve of Rio environmental conference, Brazil pushes back forestry changes
Environment
Brazil’s new forest code faces international opposition
Preserving the Congo Basin’s Trees, Part 1
REDD Debate
Protecting Forests, Sequestering Carbon
Can REDD Work for the Amazon?
Planting Native Trees
FEIGNING GREEN
Cancun REDD Wrap
Negotiating Rights to Forests
REDD Corruption
Part 3
Part 2
Preserving the Congo Basin’s Trees
In Forests, the Challenges of Climate Change and Poverty
Part 3
Part 2
Preserving the Congo Basin’s Trees
Tree Planting for Carbon Raises Questions
Carrots and Sticks: Saving the Amazon and Stalling Climate Change
The Cattle Climate Connection
Deforestation Down Under
Los Arboles?
Part II: It’s More Than a Tree Planting Movement
Part II: It’s More Than a Tree Planting Movement
Environment
Deforestation Nations
Environment
Haiti’s unnatural disaster