Correction to: Nature Sustainability https://doi.org/10.1038/s41893-023-01192-8, published online 12 August 2023.

In our work we highlighted some projects promoting forest restoration. However, the sentence referring to the Trillion Trees initiative could be misleadingly interpreted as indicating that Trillion Trees is actively promoting the expansion of managed forests. This is an incorrect statement, and we want to clarify that Trillion Trees in fact defines its mission as the protection and restoration of natural forest wherever this is possible, promoting managed forest practices only where it is beneficial for biodiversity and people’s livelihoods. The HTML and PDF versions of the article have been updated to reflect this clarification.