A man spent his life’s earnings buying a 130-acre abandoned gravel pit, he planted 50,000 trees, and years later, the barren land had become a thriving wildlife oasis

The natural landscape Edmondson created also became the setting for Log House Holidays. (Photos: LHH) Anthony Edmondson spent his life’s earnings buying a 130-acre abandoned gravel pit in the Cotswolds, south central England, in the 1980s. He planted 50,000 trees, sowed wildflowers and added reeds to the water which over the years, has transformed the […]

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In 1993, Chile adopted an Indigenous Law that enabled land restitution; by 2023 more than 510,000 acres had been returned to Mapuche communities, but native forest cover had barely changed

In 1993, Chile adopted an Indigenous Law that enabled land restitution In 1993, Chile passed a major Indigenous Law that created a formal process for returning ancestral land to Indigenous communities. Over the following 30 years, more than 510,000 acres were returned to the Mapuche, Chile’s largest Indigenous group. However, a long-term study found that […]

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