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As an amateur nature enthusiast, I found this piece interesting, relevant, and solution-oriented. Too often you see "gloom and doom" pieces about the world with no whiff of solutions anywhere.

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Thanks so much, Alexander. So lovely to get feedback like this. Funnily enough, I have a draft piece on this very topic I hope to share soon (hope vs doom and gloom). Cheers!

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Jun 17Liked by Jonathan Tonkin

Government needs to be on board with protecting our existing mature native forests and then hopefully this support would filter down to a local community level. We all need to be thinking about the benefits long term, way after own own life spans. Getting people to understand the importance of protecting existing mature forests and caring for new plantings is the key.

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Jun 10Liked by Jonathan Tonkin

Protecting existing old-growth forests got my attention first. This, I believe, covers everything. My other concern was caring for new plantings rather than walking away and hoping for the best.

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Thanks! Good point re caring for new planting. That’s somewhat captured in the point about levels of intervention and the need to monitor continuously. The original paper has so much more detail.

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Jun 10Liked by Jonathan Tonkin

Reading now

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Absolutely Kim! Well put.

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