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Mangrove planting seems like a popular activity to engage the environmentally conscious in Indonesia, from youth activists to corporate employees in CSR programs. But it's interesting to see how much of it has been effective... I'll have to read more. Or does anyone have the data on this? #climateaction #mangrove #bluecarbon

To restore #mangroves, active planting has gained popularity worldwide, including in many areas where Wetlands International works. Planting mangroves may seem like an easy and quick way to restore, but planting efforts have been failing to a large extent (~80%), especially in areas that have been extensively altered. Successful restoration relies on creating the right conditions for mangroves to regenerate naturally. ?? Wetlands International, together with Mangrove Action Project (MAP) has been implementing a more effective approach called Community-Based Ecological Mangrove Restoration (CBEMR) in its projects. We present a series of animated videos that show why inclusive ecological approaches are the way forward. Learn how to move beyond mass monoculture planting by applying the latest scientific insights and involving local communities and other stakeholders. ?? Watch here: https://lnkd.in/gxG8u4vK #mangroveRestoration #NatureBasedSolutions #BlueCarbon #ToPlantOrNotToPlant

?? Championing Species Protection with Integrated Vegetation Management! ?????? German TSO, Amprion GmbH ???? has applied its advanced approach to species protection with their innovative Integrated Vegetation Management (IVM) strategy, covering nearly 9,000 hectares across their network! ?? Since 1994, their #IntegrateNature approach has focused on selective actions like careful tree removal, targeted coppicing, and regular meadow mowing to preserve and enhance biodiversity without resorting to intensive clear-cutting ? Some of the standout projects from Amprion’s IVM efforts include: ?? Flower Line: Launched in Autumn 2023, this five-year research project aims to support flowering meadows by monitoring species in power line corridors and comparing them with control areas. ?? Refuge for the Great Notch Ant: In 2019, colonies of the Great notch ant were identified and protected, with mowing and mulching practices in place to encourage other insect populations. ? Want to learn more about what they do and how they do it? Check out the IVM Best Practice Guide here: ??https://lnkd.in/er-X3WNy ?

How can we fulfill the diverse and sometimes diverging societal demands on forests? In our paper, we highlight that integrating commercially valuable non-native tree species, like Douglas-fir, into naturally species-poor forests (i.e. European beech) can support economic benefits without jeopardizing biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Thus, forest enrichment with functional distinct tree species can provide a balanced approach to forest management. We discuss the aspect of spatial scale of our stands as well as implications for forest management and other tree mixtures. Did you get curious? Have a look at it! :) Big thanks to Serena Müller, the RTG 2300, the foresters, Felap department, University of G?ttingen, DFG, UFSC, and all parts involved! ?? #forestmanagement #mixedforests #climatechange #Douglasfir #Europeanbeech #Norwayspruce #multipurposeforestmanagement

Lets talk plantations... Vast swathes of non-native pine plantations dominate much of the Welsh uplands. Despite their impressive stature, these forests offer a complex problem. This is not what this land looked like before the dawn of the anthropocene. In many of these cases, such as this one up in the misty mountains of northern Carmarthenshire, these trees were planted for timber on peat bog. The bogs were drained and trees planted to stabilize the land, while also providing commercial timber. The cost of this was the native peatland and sparse broadleaf wet forests, and all the biodiversity that inhabits it. This would include iconic species such as marsh fritillary, golden plover and sundews. So now you're thinking we should just get rid of the plantation? Well, it's not quite that simple. Aside from the sheer scale of that task, these plantations provide a habitat for different organisms. In my time at this site we were looking for red squirrel and pine marten, both protected native species who benefit from the habitat provided by the plantation. I'm not really going to provide an answer here, I just wanted to show that these questions are much more nuanced than they are often given credit for. Stay tuned for further discussion in coming posts... For much more info on our native peatland please check out the Lost Peatlands Project here www.npt.gov.uk/21233

“How to Love a Forest is a reimagining of forests and our relationship to them. It’s a vision for a new ethic for the modern world – one that recognizes how vital and how beautiful ecosystems are, and also the many bittersweet decisions necessary to care for them. How to Love a Forest is also a love story – it’s a love letter to my land, ‘Bear Island,’ a love letter to forests and other ecosystems, a love letter to biodiversity. And it’s also a love letter to a world that doesn’t exist yet – it’s the world that we can create if we’re willing to make the complex and bittersweet decisions to save ourselves and everything that is precious. Like any great love story, caring for ecosystems requires compromises and sacrifices, requires us to do things we never thought we’d have to do – we do it anyway, because this is what we do for love. That’s what How to Love a Forest is all about. … “I started writing How to Love a Forest more than six years ago. In my work as a forester, I was struggling with how consistently forests and other ecosystems – and the measures necessary to protect them – were misunderstood. It seemed to me that most people believed in this dichotomy that doesn’t really exist: that either we love forests and leave them alone, or we manage them because we don’t care about them. I was seeing how consistently our ecosystems needed help, and how consistently they were denied that help because people believed that the only expression of compassion for forests was to remove ourselves from them. In my mind, as forests struggle under the harmful legacies of the past, the threats and stressors of the present, and a future that promises challenges like never before, inaction is often an expression of negligence, not love. The ecosystems of this world need our help, and these misunderstandings about forests and what it means to care for them were getting in the way of that – so I decided that I needed to starting writing.” - Ethan Tapper https://lnkd.in/ecZsMPSY

Did you know that 80% of mangrove planting projects fail???? Successful restoration relies on creating the right conditions for mangroves to regenerate naturally. ?? Here are a few reasons why mass-planting mangroves can often fail: https://lnkd.in/gSUF9y3N Wetlands International has therefore adopted a more effective approach called Community-Based Ecological Mangrove Restoration (CBEMR) in its projects together with Mangrove Action Project (MAP). We have been building the capacity of close to 700 stakeholders around the world to use and upscale the approach through regular CBEMR trainings. #WeNeedWetlands #mangroverestoration #NatureBasedSolutions #WorldMangroveDay #WMD2024 #ClimateAction #BiodiversityLoss #GenerationRestoration #ForNature ?? The Global Mangrove Alliance has created the ‘Best Practice Guidelines for Mangrove Restoration’. Read here: https://lnkd.in/e-NT7iCy

An old growth #forest has a rich ecosystem and features which store #carbon, #water and #biodiversity beyond what any tree plantation can possibly provide. While not quite an old growth forest, a legacy forest is one that is beginning to acquire some of that rich complexity. Is this nuance between a tree plantation and a mature ecosystem finally beginning to gain some public appreciation?

One of the 1st things I learned in my job at Wetlands International is that mangrove restoration is not the same as planting a bunch of trees and hoping for the best. Like all ecosystems mangroves are complex and the conditions need to be just right for restoration to be successful. Want to know more about how restoration can work, check out the video below.

An old growth #forest has a rich ecosystem and features which store #carbon, #water and #biodiversity beyond what any tree plantation can possibly provide. While not quite an old growth forest, a legacy forest is one that is beginning to acquire some of that rich complexity. Is this nuance between a tree plantation and a mature ecosystem finally beginning to gain some public appreciation?