Restoration Stories
Voices from practitioners, local actors, communities, financiers, mediators, landowners and policy makers who are delivering on the mission of restoring Europe’s forests. | #UpscalingForestRestoration
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Seeds of renewal: collaboration for climate-resilient forests in North Rhine-Westphalia
Article written by Louisa Bouri-Saouter and Gesche Schifferdecker When tourists come to visit Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, some wonder what has happened. Around the Lömecke Tower, an observation tower about 35 meters high in the Arnsberg Forest Nature Park, the once endless spruce forests are gone. Since 2018, about 133,000 hectares of spruce forest have been damaged by …
SUPERB final General Assembly: three days to celebrate and discuss the pan-European four-year project’s legacy!
Restoration Story by Louisa Bouri-Saouter After four years of intensive and inspiring collaboration between researchers, forestry practitioners, policymakers, NGOs, local communities, and forest and nature agencies, our community had the chance to reunite one last time…
“Restoring forests and facts: how Social Media analysis can shape environmental stories
A new article from researchers involved in SUPERB underscores how social media platforms can serve as valuable sources for climate and environmental journalism. Published as the first in a two-part series titled “Climate Reporting: 5 Tips…
From pixels to pines: exploring Bulgaria’s Rhodopes Forests
#RestorationStory by Annabel Burg, Sietse van der Woude, and Niamh Kelly It was the last day of June 2025 when our small group set out from Schiphol Airport. Traveling with us, three PhD students from Wageningen…
Three Words for Forest: Where Theatre Meets the Trees
What if a play could change the way we see forests? In a small rehearsal room at the University of Glasgow, words gathered like leaves. They weren’t just any words, but the real voices of forestry…
