The importance of forestry
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-latin-america-58743367 Large parts of South America are facing the most severe drought in nearly a century. At threat is one of the largest waterways in the region, the Paraná water system that millions of people in Brazil, Paraguay and Argentina … Continued
The biggest permaculture project on Earth?
In many parts of India, such as Maharashtra, West Bengal and the Deccan Plateau, where the rain falls only in the monsoon season, the Paani Foundation and DRCSC have encouraged villages to create CCT’s (trenches along contours), terraced ponds and … Continued
Fishing for crabs in Brazil
Mangroves cover 13,989 sq km of Brazil’s coast and are an important protection against climate change, with one acre of mangrove forest absorbing nearly the same amount of carbon dioxide as an acre of Amazon rainforest. The forests also protect … Continued
Young People’s Forest
Saturday September 18th free event – plant trees with us! See this Woodland Trust page. Mead is a new forest planted by young people in Derbyshire. The Young People’s Forest at Mead is located right on the southern edge of … Continued
My passion for trees
Judi Dench shares her passion for trees in a BBC film from 2017, together with experts who show how trees communicate above and below ground.
The Return
As billions of people isolated around the world in 2020, villagers from Sarayaku, a Kichwa community in the Ecuadorian Amazon, headed deeper into the forest to escape the coronavirus pandemic, after floods due to deforestation destroyed their houses. The journey, … Continued
The Compass: Under The Canopy
This is the title of three programmes on the World Service about forests; the first programme was first broadcast on Wednesday March 3rd. See https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct2cb1. In the first programme:- “Jessica unpicks the profound role that forests play in our imaginative … Continued
The International Day of Forests
Every year on the International Day of Forests [March 21st] we celebrate the ways in which forests and trees sustain and protect us. This year we are raising awareness of how forests are key to the planet’s supply of freshwater, … Continued
Heart of England Forest
The Heart of England Forest, a registered charity, is dedicated to planting the largest new native Forest right in the heart of the country. We’ve already planted over 1 million trees, but our goal is to create a huge, unbroken … Continued
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