These days everyone seems to thinks that "planting trees" is an important solution to the climate crisis. They're mostly wrong, and in this paper we explain why. Instead of planting trees, we need to talk about people managing landscapes. 1/x academic.oup.com/bioscience/adv…

Tree planting is widely promoted as a climate solution. But Land-Cover & Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Program researchers Forrest Fleischman and team shows the issue is more complicated, and more attention needs to be paid to the human drivers of ecosystem carbon storage

How do tree plantations affect vulnerable people? In our new paper, funded by Land-Cover & Land-Use Change (LCLUC) Program, we show that plantations disrupt the livelihoods of Gaddi pastoralists, who have moved their herds between Himalayan alpine and plains pastures for generations. ecologyandsociety.org/vol25/iss4/art…

This from @reddmonitor is a great illustration of nature-based climate solutions (and forest landscape restoration) gone wrong. An oil company planting a pulp plantation in a biodiverse savanna to greenwash its oil drilling in biodiverse peat swamps. redd-monitor.org/2021/04/16/ana…

India has attempted large scale forest restoration for decades. We have just published one of the first systematic evaluations of these efforts. We find that decades of tree planting have had almost no impact on forest canopy cover or rural livelihoods. A Thread.

Excellent coverage of our recent paper in the Hindustan Times.

And planting trees does not give you an indulgence to burn fossil fuels the rest of the day.

Interesting exchange in Nature Ecology & Evolution over global priority maps for conservation: tl;dr We need to think seriously about what gets counted and what lessons can be learned from these exercises

The first paper is by Carina Wyborn and @megcevans, and critiques the popularity of these big mapping and priority making exercises nature.com/articles/s4155…

👇👇right on Forrest Fleischman! "what is measured, whose decisions count, and what science is used in that decision, its all part of the politics of decision-making" GLP is committed to fostering a global network for inclusive LSS science

Alot of people tell me that it isn't possible to map social aspects of conservation in detail at a global scale. It is ↓↓↓↓↓

A great segment on the pitfalls of mass tree plantations, and why we need more locally-responsive and people centered climate solutions. Based on an interview I gave with Simrin Sirur at ThePrintIndia. Thanks for this!

I'm quoted in this excellent article from the NY Times on tree planting.

How do we decide where we should focus ecological restoration? A recent paper in nature by Strassburg et al. provided advice that mostly ignored people. We think this is wrong, and Nature has now (finally!) published our response. nature.com/articles/s4158…

Paradójicamente, los menos preocupados son la mayoría de los #mexicanos. #YoDefiendoAllNE tiene que moverse de las redes sociales a grupos sociales más amplios.

I just uploaded 'Connecting Climate Social Adaptation and Land Use Change in Internationally Adjoin…' to Academia! academia.edu/27046860/Conne…