Forest restoration is a big field, with lots of approaches and – very often – conflicting information.
That is why we’ve prepared our short explainers, which help you to understand the key concepts – based on current science, knowledge and practice – and provide additional reading suggestions for those wanting to go deeper.
Today’s Healthy Gardens for Tomorrow’s Climate, Part 2 – Analyzing your garden space
Would you like to create a garden in an urban environment and help protect biodiversity in the process? Some initial considerations will help with the planning.
Today’s Healthy Gardens for Tomorrow’s Climate, Part 3 – Creating habitat
Our garden planning decisions help to ensure that wildlife such as bees and butterflies, as well as birds and small mammals, can also benefit from our urban retreat. With access to the garden and special precautions, biodiversity can be actively protected and promoted.
Today’s Healthy Gardens for Tomorrow’s Climate, Part 1 – Introduction
A healthy urban garden is an ongoing project and a living ecosystem that contributes to preserving biodiversity and mitigating the climate crisis. To help you successfully implement your personal ideas for a garden from an ecological perspective, we have created these practical quick guides for you.
Initiatives and organisations in action
Around the world, many initiatives and organisations are working to restore forest ecosystems and their functions, while ensuring a sustainable use by people. Corresponding to the global dimension of this issue, the commitments for planting or restoring are bigger than ever before.
Who is carrying this work and which challenges are there?
Deforestation: the issue and the causes
The amount and type of forest cover has changed over time, both for natural and man-made reasons.
In which way are people affecting forest ecosystems and are there any signs of recovery?
The basi(c)s
Our view of nature has changed over time and even nowadays has very strong differences around the world.
How do we define the usefulness and value of nature?