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Plantations take economic pressure off natural forests

  1. Jaboury Ghazoul

    1. ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

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  2. Miguel Bugalho

    1. University of Lisbon, Portugal.

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  3. Rodney Keenan

    1. University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.

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Strategies for global forest restoration must be framed in the context of the growing worldwide demand for fuel, food and incomes (see S. Lewis et al. Nature 568, 25–28; 2019). In our view, plantations are, alongside natural and regenerating forests, a legitimate and valuable component of the global restoration strategy to directly and indirectly contribute to climate-change mitigation.

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Nature 570, 307 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-01878-0

Competing Interests

R.K. receives research funding from the Australian forest plantation industry. J.G. and M.B. attended a WWF New Generation Plantation workshop in early April 2019, and are providing advice on the development of WWF New Generation Plantation research activities. This is in an unpaid capacity and as independent scientists, and they do not hold any official position in this regard.

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