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A regenerating stand of rainforest in northern Costa Rica. Matthew Fagan

Restoring tropical forests isn’t meaningful if those forests only stand for 10 or 20 years

Matthew Fagan, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Leighton Reid, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Margaret Buck Holland, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Many nations are restoring degraded tropical forests to slow climate change, protect endangered species and improve rural life. But those forests often are cleared again soon afterward.

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