By Andrew Seligman | Volunteer
Thanks to your support, we continue our efforts to regrow forests, both with our teams in El Salvador and Nicaragua, and also through the development of the Machete Project digital platform. We are in the final months of fine-tuning and testing the digital platform.
Through this journey, we have become more convinced as to the importance of farmer-assisted natural regeneration. A recent article in the journal Nature confirms the effectiveness of this approach and shows that this can be the most cost-effective method of restoring forests.
Amongst the mostimportant findings is:
Tropical forest regeneration is a key nature-based solution for climate change mitigation and biodiversity conservation. Regenerating forests offer substantial, but overlooked, potential for emerging markets of carbon and biodiversity credits and payments for environmental services programmes. Such initiatives could mobilize critically needed financial resources for restoration of native forests for local communities.
You can read the article here Drivers and benefits of natural regeneration in tropical forests | Nature Reviews Biodiversity
To meet this critical moment in time, we must continue our efforts to restore forests, benefitting families, biodiversity, and the climate. Thank you again for your support.
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