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A two-year nature recovery project in England's New Forest has documented over 1,100 species, including endangered sand lizards and rare pine martens raising their young. The £1.3 million effort restored 321 hectares of habitat and offers hope for wildlife comeback across the UK.
What looks like "carnage" is actually hope taking root at Minute Man National Historical Park. Crews are removing invasive vines strangling 40 ash trees to give new forests a fighting chance.
The Philippines transformed an area twice the size of New York City into new forests across Eastern Visayas, completing its ambitious National Greening Program target. What once was barren grassland now teems with trees, thanks to local communities who turned climate action into reality.
A Bristol startup is turning urine from music festivals into odorless fertilizer that will grow a new forest in Wales. The first tree was planted in February, marking the UK's first woodland grown with nutrients recovered from human waste.
Tigers are returning to Kazakhstan nearly eight decades after the Caspian tiger went extinct there. The WWF's ambitious reforestation project has already planted 40,000 trees to prepare new forest habitats for the big cats.
Plateau State is getting a major security boost with 1,000 new forest guards and 5,000 AI-enabled surveillance cameras. The dual approach aims to protect communities that have faced repeated attacks while rebuilding trust between residents and security forces.
Portugal just secured €250 million from the European Union to replant forests devastated by winter storms and support landowners who lost income. The five-year program will help restore woodlands while compensating farmers who commit to maintaining new forest areas.
Volunteers in England just finished planting a 15-mile hedgerow that connects two national parks, creating a living highway for thousands of species. The Hampshire Hedge took three years to complete and now links South Downs National Park to New Forest National Park.
A nationwide reforestation program is rescuing five threatened and endangered species by restoring millions of acres of critical habitat. From grizzly bears in the Rockies to tiny squirrels in Appalachia, new forests are giving wildlife a fighting chance.
China has contributed nearly half of all new forest growth worldwide over the past 35 years, according to a new UN report. The nation's massive reforestation effort is reshaping the global fight against climate change.
A new forest project in Zanzibar is protecting the endangered Red Colobus monkey while creating jobs for 13 local communities. The TUI Care Foundation is planting 67,000 more native trees this year, bringing their total to over 130,000. #