To restore forests, first we have to overcome the silent bane of tidiness mentalities.
Tag: secondary forest
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 […]
6 short films about forest restoration
A few short, beautiful films about forest restoration
To save a forest, find the mother trees: the fight to bring back Brazil’s Araucaria forest
The fight to restore a vanishing forest
New map could help save critically endangered Javan leopard
My first article for Mongabay. Read with original images here. A new study outlines where Javan leopards live – and where suitable habitat remains on the densely inhabited island. National parks remain the most stable habitat for the critically endangered species, but the study finds that half its potential habitat […]
Crouching bull, hidden bear
The bull didn’t lower its horns or scuff its front leg in the soil, like they always seem to in movies. One second it was looking in my direction. The next it was charging full-tilt straight at me. This field season in Colombia is the first that I’ve worked outside […]
Conservation is bloody complicated
Forest restoration on Colombian cowlands is a great idea…but how can we actually do it?