Thailand in the 1950s planted millions of leucaena trees for fodder and reforestation, but scientists now say they have spread into natural forests, replacing native vegetation with dense single-species stands | World News

The leaves and spherical white flowers of Leucaena leucocephala, a species once widely planted for fodder and reforestation but now recognised as an invasive plant in several countries, including Thailand. Image Credits: Wikimedia Commons Tree planting has always been viewed as one of the most effective means of bringing about restoration of degraded landscapes, tackling…

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Costa Rica lost nearly half its forests in just a few decades, then planted millions of trees and became one of the world’s greatest reforestation success stories |

By the 1980s, Costa Rica was facing an environmental crisis that few could have imagined just decades earlier. Once blanketed by lush tropical forests, the Central American nation had lost nearly half of its tree cover as logging, cattle ranching and agricultural expansion rapidly transformed the landscape. Wildlife habitats shrank, biodiversity declined, rivers became increasingly…

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