{"id":63044,"key":"Trees,_woodland_and_forest","title":"Trees, woodland and forest","latest":{"id":1274222,"timestamp":"2026-09-16T16:15:15Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Redwood National Park, fog in the forest.jpg|thumb|Coast Redwood forest and understory plants — in Redwood National Park, [[California]]. June 2008. Attribution: Michael Schweppe]]\n\nThe aim of this page is to recognise, celebrate and encourage the self-empowerment of community agency networks ([[Citizens Action Network handbook|CANs]]) and community groups' activism concerning '''Trees, woodland and forest'''. Learn about how communities positively impact through innovations, different projects and collaborations.\n\n== News ==\n\n{{Card|text={{Newslist|keyword=Trees|limit=3}}\n\n{{Read more|Trees, woodland and forest news}}}}\n\n== Video ==\n\n<div class=\"grid\">\n\n{{Video\n| 5TlqZr-0C9g\n| title = The Amazon – Heart of the World\n| authors = AmazonWatch, ''1.45 mins.''\n| date = 2025-08-29\n}}\n\n{{Video\n| Sl1_ODlk72U\n| title = Top tools to protect rainforests, Against All Odds\n| authors = Mongabay, ''5.41 mins.''\n| date = 2025-06-12\n}}\n\n{{Video|187181616|platform=Vimeo}}\n\n{{Video|54411080|platform=Vimeo}}\n\n{{Video|Jw7jSwIsynM}}\n\n{{Video|jqdOkXQngw8}}\n\n</div>\n\n{{Quote\n| text = What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another.\n| author = Gandhi\n| image = Portrait Gandhi.jpg\n}}\n\n'''Forests''' cover one third of the earth's land mass, performing vital functions and services around the world which make our planet alive with possibilities. In fact, 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihoods. They play a key role in our battle against [[climate change]], releasing oxygen into the atmosphere while storing carbon dioxide.\n\nForests feed our rivers and are essential to supplying the [[water]] for nearly 50% of our largest cities. They create and maintain soil fertility and they help to regulate the often devastating impact of storms, [[flood]]s and fires.\n\nSplendid and inspiring, forests are the most biologically diverse ecosystems on land, and are home to more than half of the terrestrial species of animals, plants and insects.\n\nForests also provide shelter, jobs, security and cultural relevance for forest-dependent populations. They are the green lungs of the earth, vital to the survival of people everywhere - all seven billion of us.\n\n[[File:A look down Balboa.jpg|thumb]]\n\nForests embody so much of what is good and strong in our lives. Yet despite all of these priceless ecological, economic, social and health benefits, we are destroying the very forests we need to live and breathe.\n\nGlobal deforestation continues at an alarming rate - every year 13 million hectares of forest are destroyed. That's equal to the size of [[Portugal]].\n\nShort-term investments for immediate gains (i.e. logging) compound these losses. People who depend on forests for their livelihoods are struggling to survive. Many precious species face extinction. [[Biodiversity]] is being obliterated. What's more, economists around the world have proven that by not integrating the values of forests into their budgets, countries and businesses are paying a high price. One that ultimately impoverishes us all as harm to our forest life-support system continues each and every single day.\n\nBut this trend is not irreversible. It's not too late to transform life as we know it into a greener future where forests are at the heart of our sustainable development and green economies.\n\n[[File:640px-Chobe Riverfront, Botswana.jpg|thumb]]\n\nConserving forests and expanding them need to be recognized as a business opportunity. When we add it up, an investment of US$30 billion fighting deforestation and degradation could provide a return of US$2.5 trillion in new products and services.\n\nFurthermore, targeted investments in forestry could generate up to 10 million new jobs around the world. Already, many leaders are glimpsing the potential for [[renewable energy]] and nature-based assets, but for transformation to happen, forests need to become a universal political priority.\n\nThe services forests provide are essential to every aspect of our quality of life and individual action can result in exponential impact, so do your part!<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160415003438/http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=659&ArticleID=6909&l=en&t=long unep.org], 22 February 2011</ref>\n\n== Community action projects ==\n\n* tree planting and [[Trees, woodland and forest#Reforestation|Reforestation]] initiatives\n* Community orchards\n* Community woodlands\n* Nature trails incorporating trees, woodland or forest\n\n== Events ==\n\n{{Events card|location=world|keyword=trees}}\n\n== Reforestation ==\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt|Reforestation}}\n\n== Networks ==\n\n* [https://www.1t.org/ 1t.org], platform to help with \"the conservation and restoration of one trillion trees within this decade.\"\n* [https://www.ran.org/ Rainforest Action Network], environmental organization based in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], [[USA]]. {{W|Rainforest Action Network}}\n\n== Citizens data initiative ==\n\nWorldwide, some 60 million indigenous people are almost completely reliant on forest resources for their livelihoods - for [[food]] and fuel, medicines and materials.<ref>Source: FOEI's The Tyranny of Free Trade: wasted natural wealth and lost livelihoods, December 2005, [https://web.archive.org/web/20080808134411/http://www.foei.org/publications/index.html www.foei.org/publications/index.html], ''link not found, August 2015''</ref>\n\nBetween 1990 and 2005 the rate of [[deforestation]] averaged 13 million hectares, mostly in the Tropics.<ref>Source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160414102948/http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=545&ArticleID=5930&l=en UNEP], September 2008</ref>\n\nGreenhouse gas emissions with felling, slash and burn agriculture and other [[deforestation]] effects, account for around 17 per cent or more of global emissions-the second largest source after the energy sector.<ref>Source: [https://web.archive.org/web/20160414102948/http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=545&ArticleID=5930&l=en UNEP], September 2008</ref>\n\n== Maps for community action ==\n\n* [https://www.globalforestwatch.org/ Global Forest Watch map], ''added 17:59, 12 April 2024 (UTC)''\n* [https://senseable.mit.edu/treepedia/cities/london Treepedia]\n\n== Research ==\n\n[https://www.cifor.org/ Center for International Forestry Research] conducts research on the use and management of forests in less-developed countries. {{W|Center for International Forestry Research}}\n\n[https://www.worldagroforestry.org/ World Agroforestry Centre], international institute headquartered in [[Nairobi]], [[Kenya]], and founded in 1978. The Centre specializes in the sustainable management, protection and regulation of tropical rainforest and natural reserves. It is one of 15 agricultural research centres which makes up the global network known as the CGIAR (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research). The Centre conducts research in agroforestry, in partnership with national agricultural research systems with a view to developing more sustainable and productive land use. The focus of its research is countries/regions in the developing world, particular in the tropics of Central and South America, Southeast Asia and parts of central Africa. {{W|World Agroforestry Centre}}\n\n== Other resources ==\n\n'''Organisations working with communities'''\n\n* [https://www.forestpeoples.org/ Forest Peoples Programme], \"human rights organisation working with forest peoples across the globe to secure their rights to their lands and their livelihoods. We work alongside more than 60 partner organisations representing indigenous peoples and forest communities from across the globe.\" ''added 21:16, 19 October 2022 (UTC)''\n* [https://www.sugiproject.com/ Support Sustainable Biodiverse Forests with SUGi], on [https://www.youtube.com/@SUGiProject/videos youtube.com], ''added 17:37, 21 February 2025 (UTC)''\n\n'''Forests and [[Health and wellbeing|health]]'''\n\n* [https://healingforest.org/ Healing Forest]\n\n== Natural forest regeneration ==\n\n''section needed, sample ref:<ref>[https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210524-the-reason-wild-forests-beat-plantations bbc.com/future]</ref>\n\n'''Assisted natural regeneration'''\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt|Assisted natural regeneration}}\n\n== Temperate rainforests ==\n\n{{Wikipedia excerpt|Temperate rainforest}}\n\n== Campaigns ==\n\n* [https://web.archive.org/web/20210122190728/http://www.greatnorthernforest.org/ Greenpeace petition], save the Great Northern Forest\n* The Trillion Tree Campaign is a project announced at the 2020 World Economic Forum in Davos which aims to plant one trillion trees worldwide by the end of the decade. It is looking to repopulate the world's trees and combat climate change as a nature-based solution.\n\n:The campaign is a continuation of the activities of the earlier Billion Tree Campaign, instigated by Wangari Maathai, who founded the Green Belt Movement in [[Africa, community action for sustainability|Africa]] in 1977. {{W|Trillion Tree Campaign}}\n\n{{Ecological restoration footer}}\n\n'''See also''': [[Climate action]], [[Urban sustainability]], [[:category:Forestry]], [[:category:Trees]]\n\n{{Localtopic}}\n\n{{CASwiki footer}}\n\n'''External links'''\n\n* Wikipedia:\n\n:Forests {{W|Forests}}, Reforestation {{W|Reforestation}}, Sustainable forest management {{W|Sustainable forest management}}, List of forests {{W|List of forests}}, Rainforest {{W|Rainforest}}, List of trees {{W|List of trees}}, Forests Now Declaration {{W|Forests Now Declaration}}, United Nations Billion Tree Campaign {{W|United Nations Billion Tree Campaign}}, Deforestation {{W|Deforestation}}\n\n* Greenlivingpedia:[https://www.greenlivingpedia.org/Green_carbon Green carbon]\n* [https://www.ancienttreearchive.org/ Archangel Ancient Tree Archive]\n* [https://www.rightsandresources.org/ Rights and Resources Initiative], non-governmental organization working to encourage forest tenure and policy reforms and the transformation of the forest economy so that business reflects local development agendas and supports local livelihoods. RRI works at the country, regional and global levels, collaborating on research, advocacy and convening strategic actors. {{W|Rights and Resources Initiative}}\n* [https://www.unep.org/forests/ Forests], information from United Nations Environment Programme\n* [https://www.rainforestportal.org/ Rainforest Portal]\n* [https://www.un.org/esa/forests/ UN Forum on Forests]\n* [https://www.treesforcities.org/ Trees for Cities] {{W|Trees for Cities}}\n* [https://www.treesforthefuture.org/ Trees for the Future], [[Maryland]]-based nonprofit organization founded in 1989 that helps communities around the world plant trees. Through seed distribution, agroforestry training, and in-country technical assistance, it has empowered rural groups to restore tree cover to their lands, protect the environment and help to preserve traditional livelihoods and cultures for generations. {{W|Trees for the Future}}\n* [https://permies.com/f/118/trees Tree forums]at [https://permies.com permies.com]\n* [https://permies.com/f/25/woodland Woodland forums]at [https://permies.com Permies.com]\n\n'''References'''\n\n<references />\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = Community action project, Temperate rainforest\n}}\n\n[[Category:Trees, woodland and forest]]\n[[Category:CASwiki topics with newsfeeds]]\n[[Category:Community action project]]"}