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Happy world rainforest day: 13 ways to get your dose of tropical forests today
Everything has a day, and apparently June 22nd is simultaneously National Chocolate Eclair Day and National Onion Rings Day in the US, and Rainforest Day around the world. Tropical rainforests are the most astounding, important and magnificent ecosystems on our planet and here are a few ways you can get […]
Three mind-shifting concepts for conservationists
Three ideas that have most shaped how I look at the world.
The restoration of dots and dashes
How do you measure whether a restoration project worked? The answer is, typically, you don’t. Most efforts to plant trees or recover native environments either aren’t followed up by scientists over time, or else they are carried out by practitioners who may not have the time, resources or expertise needed […]
Protect or restore: a clash of the forest titans?
We want to protect old forest AND restore new ones. But could the one come at the expense of the other?
6 short films about forest restoration
A few short, beautiful films about forest restoration
Sea cows, tortillas, guns and glaciers: a world of crazy connections
If the past few months has shown us anything at all, it is how interconnected everything is in our globalised world. An animal-human interaction on one side of the planet can quickly spread to become a global phenomena. For this post, I thought I’d draw together some other examples of […]
Logging redwoods, birds of paradise and Omar Tello’s 7 hectare quest
Three things. First, this black and white video of the logging of California’s redwoods in the 1940s is insane. Second, to balance out the black and white, here are the 39 species of birds of paradise. And lastly, this is the best short video on restoration I have seen. A […]
2019 in 19 photos…from mountaintops to wadi beds.
From mountain tops to wadi beds. 2019 in 19 photos.
Life in the nooks and crannies: exploring Musandam’s rare flora.
We quickly learned that the high-altitude terraces of Musandam are a floristic gem in the rugged crown of Northernmost Oman.