CASwiki news articles have a focus on news of community action for sustainability. This article is an offshoot from Trees, woodland and forest and is for news and comment in that global or international context. Image: Avenue of trees in St George's Park St George's Park, Bristol, 11 July 2007. Attribution: Linda Bailey
  • Thinking Long-Term: Why We Should Bring Back Redwood Forests, e360.yale.edu (Sep 25, 2023)
  • How Medellin is beating the heat with green corridors, BBC Future (Sep 23, 2023)
  • US launches $1bn tree-planting scheme to mitigate effects of climate crisis, theguardian.com (Sep 14, 2023)

August 2023[edit | edit source]

  • A forest gave Cambodia’s captive elephants a new life. Now they’re paying it back, news.mongabay.com (Aug 31, 2023)
  • Conservationists work to restore last remnant of a once-great Ugandan forest, news.mongabay.com (Aug 25, 2023)
  • Ecuadorians vote to halt oil drilling in biodiverse Amazonian national park, theguardian.com (Aug 21, 2023)
  • Defuelling California’s wildfires with sheep, chinadialogue.net (Aug 10, 2023) — If rotated wisely, sheep and cattle can graze away the fuel of deadly wildfires in the American West
  • India was a tree planting laboratory for 200 years – here are the results, theconversation.com (Aug 10, 2023)
  • ‘More in hope’: lessons from our tiny reforestation scheme in the Amazon, theguardian.com (Aug 03, 2023)
  • New grant program asks residents to ‘throw shade,’ foster climate resiliency in Flint, flintbeat.com (Aug 02, 2023)

July 2023[edit | edit source]

June 2023[edit | edit source]

  • The Indigenous forest collective restoring a corner of California, Positive News (Jun 20, 2023)
  • Canada’s fires are getting fiercer – and rebuilding is becoming a challenge, The Guardian (Jun 19, 2023)
  • Africa’s land and forest restoration initiative gathers pace in Malawi, news.mongabay.com (Jun 07, 2023)

May 2023[edit | edit source]

  • How We Lit Our California Homestead on Fire, medium.com (May 03, 2023)

Apr 2023[edit | edit source]

  • Costa Rica restored its ravaged land to health. The rich UK has no excuse for such complete failure, George Monbiot, The Guardian (Apr 21, 2023)
  • Food forests are bringing shade and sustenance to US cities, one parcel of land at a time, The Conversation (Apr 04, 2023)
  • A "Miyawaki forest" takes two decades to mature at the heart of a city. In Lisbon, it's burgeoning in two years, The Daily Alternative (Apr 02, 2023)

Feb 2023[edit | edit source]

  • Ireland has lost almost all of its native forests – here’s how to bring them back, The Conversation (Feb 24, 2023)
  • ‘We’ve come so far’: how one village rose from the ashes of a wildfire, Positive News (Feb 24, 2023)

Jan 2023[edit | edit source]

  • Saving Kenya’s Oloolua Forest, China Dialogue (Jan 30, 2023)
  • Sierra Madre: Fighting to save what's left of a vital rainforest, BBC News (Jan 05, 2023)

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