Mongabay: New directory helps donors navigate the complex world of global reforestation

Nov 12 - To answer the donors and funders question of how to identify effective reforestation organizations, Prof Karen Holl's lab at UCSC evaluated groups across four categories: permanence, ecological, social and financial, each backed by scientific literature on best practices. Holl and UCSC postdoctoral researcher Spencer Schubert spent more than a year evaluating “intermediary organizations,” the major groups that channel funding and resources to local tree-planting projects around the world. Their recently published Global Reforestation Organization Directory provides standardized information on more than 125 major tree-planting organizations, making it easier for donors to compare groups and find the ones that match their priorities. Learn MORE.