‘Win-win’: new maps reveal best opportunities for global reforestation

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/11/maps-forests-study-environment-wildlife-climate-crisis

by morenewsat11

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  1. Reforestation is an vital tool in the mitigation toolbox. From the article:

    > New maps have revealed the best “win-win” opportunities across the world to regrow forests and tackle the climate crisis, without harming people or wildlife.

    > The places range from the eastern US and western Canada, to Brazil and Columbia, and across Europe, adding up to 195 million hectares (482 million acres). If reforested, this would remove 2.2bn tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, about the same as all the nations in the European Union.

    > The researchers behind the new maps built on previous work but employed a deliberately conservative approach in order to shine a spotlight on those places with the highest potential and the fewest problems.

    > They focused only on dense, closed-canopy forests and excluded areas that had suffered recent wildfires. The result was a map showing 195 million hectares of reforestation opportunity, an area equivalent to the size of Mexico but up to 90% smaller than previous maps. They provided further options that, for example, avoid the risk of social conflict with forest peoples, which reduced the potential CO2 removal to 1.5bn tonnes a year.

  2. REAL QUESTION:
    What does Fortress Conservation propose to do… ethnically cleanse Eurepean Americans from the Amazon basin and slaughter all of their cattle, returning all of the land to the indigenous Amerindians who had previously preserved the Amazon basin whole and intact for at least ten thousand years before the (as yet ongoing) genocide of Amerindians, 1492-present day….?

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