A major global effort to enable cost‐effective natural regeneration is needed to achieve
ambitious forest and landscape restoration goals. Natural forest regeneration can potentially …

The exceptional levels of biodiversity found today in the American tropics are the outcome of
tens of millions of years of evolution, shaped by the tumultuous geological history of the …

Brazil has a monitoring system to track annual forest conversion in the Amazon and most
recently to monitor the Cerrado biome. However, there is still a gap of annual land use and …

New remote sensing data on vegetation cover and restoration opportunities bring hope to
the Brazilian Atlantic Forest, one of the hottest of the 36 global biodiversity hotspots …

Understanding the dynamics of native forest loss and gain is critical for biodiversity
conservation and ecosystem services, especially in regions experiencing intense forest …

Under suitable conditions, deforested land used for agricultural crops or pastures can revert
to forest through the assisted or unassisted process of natural regeneration. These naturally …

Biodiversity hotspots are among some of the habitats most threatened by climate change,
and the Brazilian Atlantic forest is no exception. Only 11.6% of the natural vegetation cover …

Limited funding is a major barrier to implementing ambitious global restoration
commitments, so reducing restoration costs is essential to upscale restoration. The lack of …

Recent initiatives at regional, national, and global scales have called for unprecedented
levels of forest restoration to counteract decades of rapid deforestation (1, 2). Thus far, 30 …

Forest restoration requires strategies such as passive restoration to balance financial
investments and ecological outcomes. However, the ecological outcomes of passive …