Mastercard: When It Comes to Reforestation, One Tree Does Not Fit All

By Maggie Sieger

NORTHAMPTON, MA / ACCESSWIRE / April 24, 2024 / Mastercard

Don't let the old Johnny Appleseed legend fool you. Planting trees is not simply a matter of haphazardly scattering seeds on the ground. Reforesting on a global scale takes deep scientific knowledge, enormous resources and local knowledge - and lots of data.

That has certainly been the case for Mastercard's Priceless Planet Coalition, which aims to restore 100 million trees in a global effort to mitigate climate change. Along with its forest restoration partners, Conservation International and World Resources Institute, the initiative has launched 19 restoration projects across six continents, from the Amazon and Atlantic rainforests of Brazil to the mangrove ecosystems of the Northern Emirates to the tablelands of southeastern Australia.

To find out more about the science behind choosing the places - and the right trees - to plant, the Mastercard Newsroom recently talked with Starry Sprenkle-Hyppolite, senior director of restoration science at Conservation International, and René Zamora-Cristales, senior manager for restoration policy and Initiative 20x20 secretariat director at World Resources Institute.

Restoring trees aids in the capture of carbon, reducing the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that fuels global warming. What are the other benefits of restoration?

Sprenkle-Hyppolite: Forests provide many benefits - not only for climate but also for communities. Trees prevent erosion, which is very important, not only for productivity and soil fertility but also for water quality downstream and curbing carbon emissions. Trees also provide shade, protect the soil and reduce evaporation. They make water systems function more naturally again and are critical for ensuring freshwater resources for drinking and irrigation. They work as temperature regulators, too. If you're in a system that used to have shade and then there's no more shade, that [increased heat] can be deadly - even for things underground or underwater.

How do you determine where you should focus your tree-planting efforts?

Sprenkle-Hyppolite: We start with publicly available maps. Many global maps measure the number of households per hectare or people per hectare. Others map out where biodiversity is endangered or measure the potential for trees to absorb carbon in a given reforested area. Then our own scientists overlay each of these maps to identify where they can maximize the benefits. What we've found is that these global data maps sacrifice quality when digging into specific areas. So once we have the global big picture, we still need to reexamine more locally calibrated datasets, which are often different, so it's kind of like repeating the exercise to find the best available data and use it to hone in on the most promising locations.

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