“There has now emerged a global call for restoration of deforested lands, given the growing recognition that forests provide a disproportionate amount of the services—drinking and irrigation water, climate change mitigation, stormwater management, and recreation—that allow humanity to survive in the long term.” ForestsEssayDeforestationReforestation Book:A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future Source: A Better Planet: Forty Big Ideas for a Sustainable Future
“Large-scale reforestation of the Scottish hills and uplands through natural regeneration offers a tantalising prospect in terms of recovering our lost biodiversity, balancing our carbon budget and, I would argue, an opportunity to reinvigorate the economy of remoter rural areas. All that stands in the way are medieval laws designed centuries ago to prevent poaching and exclude people, and a forestry sector that follows, blindly, the corporate industrial forestry model.” ScotlandForestryRural DevelopmentReforestation Book:Reforesting Scotland 66, Autumn/Winter 2022 Source: Reforesting Scotland 66, Autumn/Winter 2022