UN Adopts Uzbekistan’s Initiative on Global Forest Restoration

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/un-adopts-uzbekistans-initiative-on-global-forest-restoration/

South Korea Backs Forest Restoration in Kazakhstan’s Fire-Ravaged Abay Region

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/south-korea-backs-forest-restoration-in-kazakhstans-fire-ravaged-abay-region/

Burning the oak woodland

#LandscapePhotography
#ForestRestoration
#oakwoodland

Yearly planned burn helps restore native plants and animals in an open oak woodland.

Uzbekistan Launches $153 Million Forest Restoration Project with World Bank Support

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://timesca.com/uzbekistan-launches-153-million-forest-restoration-project-with-world-bank-support/

#florestas Peter Pan 🌱🌱🌱🌱

“Alguns esforços para preservar ou reflorestar habitats naturais estão a deslocar a utilização nociva dos solos para outras partes do mundo, o que poderá conduzir a um declínio ainda mais acentuado das espécies do planeta”

#amazonia #FLR #restauroflorestal
#biodiversidade #ForestRestoration

https://www.publico.pt/2025/02/13/azul/noticia/alerta-global-fuga-biodiversidade-ja-ouviu-falar-florestas-peter-pan-2122480

HT @carolannie

#Agroecology offers blueprint for #resilient farming in northern #Ghana

by Caleb Ahinakwah, 5 Dec 2024

Excerpt: "Alley cropping in practice: Healing the land

"As climatic conditions worsen, farmers in the region are turning to agroforestry techniques. One approach that has taken root, literally, in the Builsa area is alley cropping, which integrates trees with traditional farming practices. Tree Aid, an international nonprofit that works on forest and land restoration projects in Ghana and elsewhere, introduced this technique to farmers in the region in 2014. Farmers have planted rows of trees such as shea, baobab and moringa 12 meters (39 feet) apart, and continued to grow crops like millet, cowpeas and groundnuts beneath them.

"Yakubu Issah began planting baobab and shea trees on his farm five years ago. 'At first, it seemed like extra work with little reward. But now, our millet grows healthier, the soil holds water longer, and we even earn extra income by selling baobab leaves,' he said.

"He added that bees have returned, along with birds and squirrels: 'The farm feels alive again."'

#SolarPunkSunday #Agroecology #Sustainability #Agricuture #Resilience #Ecology #AgroForestry #AlleyCropping #ForestEcology #ForestRestoration #Permaculture #SustainableForestry #GardeningForPollinators #ProtectTheForests #TreeAid #Resiliency #Rewilding

When many people think of Large Language Models (LLM's), they think of chatbots like chatgpt. Many of these models can also take image inputs. Here is a simple example of a Jupyter notebook where GPT-4o-mini was prompted "What's in this image?" We are using models like this to catalog over 100 years of historic forest management photos in searchable and sortable databases.

https://github.com/New-Jersey-Forest-Service/OpenAIexamples

#AI #artificialintelligence #forestry #habitat #forestrestoration #omnimodels #llm #biodiversity