Getting trees into the ground isn’t simple. Reforestation often involves trade-offs and challenges. Phoebe Weston checks in on two projects where people are planting trees, and one where it’s not humans doing the planting at all. She and Patrick Greenfield from The age of extinction are back with two new episodes
- Listen to episode one here.
- Read an interview with ecopreneur Thomas Crowther: ‘I’ve never said we should plant a trillion trees’
- Read the recent paper on bird-led tree planting in Monks Wood here.
- Dr Richard Broughton is an ecologist and GIS specialist at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
- Yuda Prawira works with the organisation Pandu Alam Lestari in Borneo.
- Max Hislop is the director of the Clyde Climate Forest.
- Find out more about The age of extinction here.
- Let us know what you think of the episode, and any stories you’d like us to cover in the future. Leave a comment below or send us an email at: scienceweekly@theguardian.com.
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