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Restoration Stories are a deeper look at stories behind our Restoration Resource Center Featured Project. This month we're featuring the Renature Monchique project from Portugal. The goal of this partner-based project was to begin a process that assists private landowners affected by the 2018 wildfire to recover important endemic and naturalized species. The Monchique district is mountainous,…

A new blog series featuring voices from East and West Africa will take a closer look at a set of principles we think strengthens women’s land rights. Here, IIED’s Philippine Sutz tells us what to expect. Land is the backbone of livelihoods for most women and men in rural Africa. It is central to food production and income generation. For women, given their prominent role in food…

Investments that protect and restore nature can deliver good economic returns and employment benefits. National leaders are increasingly promising a green industrial revolution to drive their economies' post-Covid recovery. They are right in believing we cannot go back to our bad old ways. But expensive investments in technologies such as offshore wind turbines and carbon capture and storage risk…

2021 to 2030 marks the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, which calls for the protection and revival of ecosystems for people and nature. To guide its activities in the years ahead, hundreds of people shaped the Decade’s Strategy, which calls on governments, private sector, civil society organizations, researchers, and local communities to build: “A world where — for the…

This year, the world marked the 75th anniversary of the United Nations in the midst of global calamity and uncertainty of an unprecedented scale. Yet we were also reminded that throughout history, great crises give rise to extraordinary opportunities. The COVID-19 pandemic is the crisis of our time. It has extinguished over 1 million lives in nine months and triggered the deepest economic…

In a year of global setbacks – coronavirus, delayed conferences, failed targets – climate action has still been on the rise; A race to zero CO2 emissions needs to be coupled with nature-positive investment to both tackle environmental challenges and support an economic recovery; Nature-based solutions, including natural climate solutions, can address both climate and nature…