Sustainable forest management to address societal challenges.
Impressions from the event
Not all forests are the same: why planting trees isn’t the same as restoring a forest
July 10, 2026
“Ten million trees planted.” Headlines like this show up often, and they’re usually meant as good news. But on their own, they don’t say much about what actually happened on the ground. Did the trees survive past year one? Are they native species, suited to that soil and climate? Is it a forest, a single-species plantation, or a mixture of the two?
