Amazonian secondary forests are greatly reducing fragmentation and edge exposure in old-growth forests. Environmental Research Letters, 2023; 18 (12): 124016 DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/ad039e ...

Secondary forest coverage on previously deforested lands grew 5% inside Indigenous territories with tenure over the 33-year research period. This is 23% more growth than directly outside their ...

Ethnobiology Letters, Vol. 14, No. 2, Special Issue on Diverse Conservations Inventory: Ethnobiologists, Communities, and Collaboration (2023), pp. 37-46 (10 pages) Costa Rica is widely regarded as a ...

These so-called secondary forests, which have regenerated themselves after being razed, often for agriculture, can help bring the world closer to the net-zero emissions target needed to slow ...

A drone views shows fallen trees in a secondary forest where farmers (not pictured) were in the last stages of clearing land as soybean farming expanded in the Amazon, in Santarem, Para state ...

Secondary forests are disproportionately at risk of clearance. In Latin America, they are 10 times more likely to be lost than old-growth. In Brazil’s Amazon, half are destroyed within eight years.

The dry summer of 2018 hit Swedish forests hard -- and hardest affected were the managed secondary forests. This according to a new study from Lund University in Sweden.

Secondary forests stand at about 20 % of Singapore’s land mass and perform important ecological functions like supporting biodiversity and carbon capture, but they are often re-cleared and less ...