One man remembered sitting in the mountains at sunset, watching the elephants cross the valley through the miombo forest, while the lions roared. On one road there was a teak plantation on one side and a miombo forest on the other. The 2011 Bonn challenge aims to bring 350 million hectares of degraded land into restoration by 2030 and nations have already signed up 170 million hectares. Even the news that global tree cover is growing is not what it seems, said Tim Rayden of the Oxford Forestry Institute. “There is a big difference between tree cover and forests,” Rayden said.

Source: Taipei Times December 27, 2019 15:56 UTC