These Are The Best Places To Plant Trees To Help The Environment, A New Online Map Shows

These Are The Best Places To Plant Trees To Help The Environment, A New Online Map Shows

These Are The Best Places To Plant Trees To Help The Environment, A New Online Map Shows Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but scientists warn that planting trees indiscriminately isn’t effective. Its success depends on how and, crucially, where it’s done. A new study in Nature Communications , co-authored by scientists from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and other institutions, seeks to advance global reforestation efforts by mapping the locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity, and community benefits. The authors compiled their findings into a web-based tool called the Reforestation Hub. “Reforestation is a readily-available, scalable, cost-effective carbon removal solution, but we have neither time nor resources to restore trees everywhere,” said study co-author Susan Cook-Patton, lead reforestation scientist at TNC. “Our goal with this research was to help accelerate action by highlighting the places…