TUM Study investigates land use concepts in tropical mountain forests

Protecting the rainforest through agriculture and forestry

Conservationists are always looking for ways to halt the pace of deforestation in tropical rainforests.

One approach involves recultivating abandoned agricultural land.

An international team investigating this concept has just published its findings in Nature Communications.

Working in the mountainous regions of Ecuador, the researchers found afforestation and intense pasturing to be particularly effective, clearly increasing the environmental and economic value of abandoned farmlands.

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