'Enormous potential': Study explores key drivers of successful reforestation schemes

Cecilia Keating
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Study touted as first thorough effort to track natural forest expansion highlights reforestation 'hot spots'

Top conservation groups have published the results of a major study into the regeneration capacity of natural forests in a bid to bolster and enhance reforestation initiatives that are an increasingly...

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