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Evidence-based forest news.

The truth lies in the numbers. So where’s all the tree data?

Join us as we try to find out 🔍

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This week in forest news 🌍🌲

🧾 Offset integrity under fire
🌳 Edinburgh plants 570K trees
🛰 DIST‑ALERT tracks loss in real time
🔥 Canada warns of drying forests
🧬 Degradation surges in Amazon

#forests #carbonmarkets #reforestation #climateaction #offsets

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Offsets, Integrity Reviews and the Limits of Tree Claims
Carbon credit critique, satellite monitoring, reforestation science, and mycorrhizal markets—forest data and debate in focus this week.
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October 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
This week in forest finance 🌱💰

🍻 BrewDog exits Kinrara
🇲🇾 Malaysia banks go green
🇳🇬 Nigeria bets on forest economy
🇨🇦 Bruce Trail lands $5.5M
🇪🇺 €40M for restoration R&D

#Scotland #reforestation #climatefinance #forests #Nigeria #Malaysia

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BrewDog’s Exit, Malaysia’s Green Banks and Nigeria’s Tree Bet
Restoration meets returns: from Nigeria’s forest economy to EU carbon math and Canada’s grants, this week in global forest finance.
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October 9, 2025 at 3:34 PM
🌲 10M trees. Open maps. pH-scarred land reborn.

Sudbury’s reforestation shows what transparency can grow. 🌍

#reforestation #opendata #climateaction #Sudbury #ecologicalrestoration

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The Forest That Proves It: How Sudbury Reclaimed a Moonscape
A Canadian city brought new life to a damaged landscape—one tree, one polygon at a time—backed by openly available data.
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October 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Reposted by Ground Truth Forest News
I'm excited to share this work led by Lynn Riley investigating albedo impacts from afforestation, reforestation, and revegetation projects. We hope the findings will guide future projects in the fight against climate change. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Accounting for albedo in carbon market protocols - Nature Communications
The paper analyzes the impact of omitting biophysical effects from carbon credits on climate mitigation. It shows that some Voluntary Carbon Market projects may result in net warming due to albedo while others enhance cooling.
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October 7, 2025 at 12:04 AM
This week’s forest news 🌳🧬

🤫 Corporations go quiet on sustainability
🔥 Post-fire reforestation gets nuanced
🤖 AI meets forest MRV
🍄 Netflix bets on fungi
🌱 Reforesting in defiance

#carbonmarkets #reforestation #greenhushing #MRV #forests #AI #fungalcredits

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Quiet Planting, AI Forest Tools and Fungal Carbon Credits
From corporate greenhushing to AI forest tracking, fungal credits and tribal reforestation, this week we map where climate action takes root.
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October 3, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This week in forest finance 🌱💰

🌍 Ecosia opens fund to planters
🇧🇷 Brazil’s TFFF eyes $125B
🇰🇪 Kenya links trees to GDP
🇪🇺 Nordics push back on LULUCF
🌐 CDOP launches data fix

#forestfinance #carbonmarkets #naturebasedsolutions #REDDplus #climatefinance #forests

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Ecosia’s Call, Kenya’s Bet and the Fight for Forest Funds
From Mexico’s green cuts to Microsoft’s cement bet and stalled Indigenous funding, this week’s stories trace climate finance fault lines.
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October 2, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This week in forest news 🌍🛰

📏 Isometric tests forest carbon rules

🔥 BC fires dodge “protected” lands

🌴 Planet opens tropical data

🌲 Mixedwoods defy labels

🌐 CDOP standardizes carbon
#forestnews #carbonmarkets #forestdata #climatefinance #wildfire #MRV #forests

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Forest Carbon Standards, Isometric’s Launch and LiDAR Logic
From new forest protocols to mapping tools and mixedwood data, this week’s updates reveal how carbon credibility gets built—and tested.
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September 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This week in forest finance 🌲💸

🇬🇧 UK offsets dominate aid

🇧🇷 JREDD+ grows, questions follow

🇧🇩 SIDA funds mangroves

🍏 Apple’s redwood math

🇸🇬 Singapore buys big
#forestfinance #carbonmarkets #REDDplus #biodiversity #climatefinance #naturebasedsolutions #forests

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UK Aid, Singapore Buys and the Debate Over Forest Offsets
From UK offsets to REDD+ reform and Singapore’s carbon spree, this week’s forest finance roundup follows the money—and the questions.
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September 25, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Reposted by Ground Truth Forest News
Apparently going have lots of reforestation (>100mt p.a) 😳

Sounds like a lot of forest!
September 22, 2025 at 12:02 AM
They say planting trees is good for the soul. But what about planting trees in the middle of the snow with an occasional dose of freezing rain?

#treeplanter #trees #canadianreforestation #whitespruce
September 21, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Weekly forest news:
🌲 Renoster pivots from rating to removals with Apollo

🛰 ForestScan sets a new biomass benchmark

🌊 Blue carbon gains in the Maldives

📑 Brazil’s Amazon states prep integrity playbook

#forestfinance #VCM #biomass #bluecarbon #Brazil #Maldives

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Renoster’s Pivot, ForestScan’s Map and Tropical Trade-Offs
As Renoster launches Apollo and ForestScan sets new benchmarks, the path to credible carbon unfolds in this week's forest news.
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September 19, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🌍 This week in forest finance:
🇧🇷 $141B on Brazil’s restoration ledger

🌊 A cost tool for blue carbon investments

🌲 California’s $18B wildfire fund

💸 $250M for Chestnut Carbon

#forestfinance #Brazil #BlueCarbon #California #wildfire #carbonmarkets #NetZero

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Blue Carbon Tools, Brazil’s Pitch and California’s Push
From Brazil’s pasturelands to California’s wildfire plans, new funding models test how far restoration can go—and who it really serves.
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September 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
We’ve collected our fair share of cones 🌲💪🐿️ …but here’s the real story: open data shows wild seed demand could jump 6x (0.3B → 2B!) to meet reforestation goals in the United States.

#OpenData #Reforestation #USA #Seeds #Cones #ConeCollection

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September 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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⚡️Mark your calendars for the

🌱IUFRO International Conference on Reforestation Under Drought
🗓️7-10 July 2026; 📍Independence, OR, USA

📑Abstract submission will be open through 30 November 2025!

🔗 www.westernforestry.org/events/iufro...

#ForestScience #ForestResearch #reforestation
September 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Weekly forest news:

🌧️ Amazon’s drying trend, 75% tied to deforestation

🌾 Uganda’s agroforests replacing palm oil

📊 U.S. forests: growth, gaps & workforce bottlenecks

Behind the noise, what do the numbers say?

#VCM #Amazon #agroforestry #reforestation #forests

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Amazon Drought, Kalangala Agroforests and Carbon Confusion
From carbon delays to cultural planting models, today’s forest fixes reveal a deeper tension between what’s counted and what actually counts.
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September 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
From burial credits to binge-watch forests, this week in forest finance:

🌊 Watershed bills in Washington

📺 Netflix’s 15-year carbon deal

🌴 $18.6B Red Sea “green” resort

#VCM #Amazon #Netflix #watersheds #reforestation #biomass #RedSea

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Red Sea Deals, Mast’s Burial Credits and Netflix Forest Bets
From burial credits to watershed bills, forest finance is evolving—linking land, carbon, and policy across sectors and geographies.
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September 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
⚖️ German court weighs in on Apple’s “carbon neutral” claim.

At stake: how permanence, leases & forestry models shape credibility in carbon markets.

Carbon accounting is meeting courtroom scrutiny.

#Apple #NetZero #carbonmarkets #RestoreFund #forestry #VCM

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Apple’s Carbon Neutral Claims – What the Data Shows
Why has a German court ruled that Apple Watch can’t be considered “carbon neutral”? Here’s an overview of Apple’s Restore Fund projects.
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September 10, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Reposted by Ground Truth Forest News
Reforestation is gaining global momentum as a climate solution, but its success depends on how and where it’s done.

A new study mapped locations where tree planting and forest regrowth are most likely to deliver climate, biodiversity and community benefits, while avoiding negative trade-offs.
New study pinpoints tree-planting hotspots for climate and biodiversity gains
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…
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September 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM
🛰️ 1.2M planting sites checked — 79% fail at least one integrity test.

🌍 Mayan jungle pact spans 14M acres.

🔥 Canada’s wildfire smoke now a health risk.

#forestfinance #carbonmarkets #reforestation #dataintegrity #MayanJungle #CanadaFires #NetZero #forests

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Mayan Maps, Missing Data and the Price of Planting Trees
From Mayan jungle borders to global planting claims, new tools are exposing the cracks in reforestation data and the maps meant to guide it.
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September 5, 2025 at 12:12 PM
📉 €65B EU biodiversity gap

🪵 $125B forest fund under pressure

💰 $70/tonne ARR premiums

🌍 7 countries testing forest finance futures

#VCM #Sweden #Nigeria #Liberia #EU #naturecredits #ARR

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Assisted Migration, Nature Credits & Nigerian Farms
The forest finance weekly: pilots in Liberia, credits in India, new funds in Brazil, and carbon bets in Nigeria.
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September 4, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Due diligence alert 🚨
New research shows Net Zero may hinge on land markets few investors truly understand.
Essential reading for carbon buyers, project developers & ESG teams.
#NetZero #carbonmarkets #ESG #landgovernance #carbonrisk #climatefinance #Africa #REDD

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Is Net Zero Set to Crush Indigenous Land Rights?
A billion hectares for climate pledges by 2060. The catch? Much of that land belongs to Indigenous peoples with insecure rights.
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September 3, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Reposted by Ground Truth Forest News
Reforestation can contribute significantly to tackling climate change, but research found its global potential is only a fraction of what’s been claimed.

👉 Read the full story: theconversation.com/the-cli...
August 29, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Will wildfire strategies ever balance equity and efficiency? 🧭 What happens if tropical forests fail to keep pace with the heat? 🌴 #ClimateAdaptation #TropicalForests #WildfirePolicy

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Nurseries in Scotland Firestorms in the American West
With Scotland scaling up biosecure seedling production and US forests facing collapse without major fire reform, the planting gap grows sharper.
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August 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM