Replanting trees helps with avoiding desertification, reducing the chances of soil erosion
and flooding, minimizing the risks of zoonotic disease outbreaks, and providing ecosystem …

Forest and landscape restoration is a promising strategy for improving water, energy and
food securities. We advocate that 'forest security'should form a fourth, foundational …

Urgent solutions to global climate change are needed. Ambitious tree‐planting initiatives,
many already underway, aim to sequester enormous quantities of carbon to partly …

Tropical forests are being deforested worldwide, and the remaining fragments are suffering
from biomass and biodiversity erosion. Quantifying this erosion is challenging because …

International commitments for ecosystem restoration add up to one-quarter of the world's
arable land. Fulfilling them would ease global challenges such as climate change and …

Providing food and other products to a growing human population while safeguarding
natural ecosystems and the provision of their services is a significant scientific, social and …

Abstract The Native Vegetation Protection Law of Brazil, which replaced the Forest Code
from 1965, is still undergoing regulation at federal and state levels, and the constitutionality …

Measures aimed at conservation or restoration of ecosystems are often seen as net‐cost
projects by governments and businesses because they are based on incomplete and often …

There has never been a more pressing and opportune time for science and practice to
collaborate towards restoration of the world's forests. Multiple uncertainties remain for …

Executive summary Increases in global mean surface temperature are projected to result in
continued permafrost degradation and coastal degradation (high confidence), increased …