Stories
Tech Meets Trees
An account of a workshop on technologies to support tropical forest ecosystem restoration run in collaboration with RMIT (Vietnam) and Glasgow University in February 2025
Carbon and Biodiversity monitoring at Restoration Plots in the Mae Sa Valley
This is the story of how four Environmental Science students discovered to what extent forest restoration can create habitat for wildlife and absorb atmospheric carbon to help mitigate climate change.
Investing in Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR):
A summary of the outcome of the "Investment Forum" in Bangkok in December 2024 to support the RESULT: Asia-Pacific program to restore 100 million ha of degraded forest land by 2030
FORRU-CMU 30th Anniversary
Celebrations, to mark FORRU-CMU's 30th anniversary, included both an academic symposium and a party.
The Soap-Nut Tree
Sapindus rarak is not only one of FORRU's favourite framework tree species for restoring upland evergreen forest, it is produces a natural soap and is the focus of genetic studies under the Global Tree Seed Bank Unlocked project with RBG Kew.
Planting Event with FORRU
FORRU organized a successful planting event at Pong Yaeng Nork village, Mae Rim, Chiang Mai, in collaboration with various organizations and enthusiastic school kids from the Young Forest Restorer (YFR) program.
SIG - Planting Event
FORRU-CMU welcomed additional support from SIG Combibloc to restore forest to degraded land at Ban Pong Yaeng Nok. The SIG team helped to plant 400 trees of framework species over 1 rai of the site, to restore the forest's biodiversity and sequester carbon.
Malaysian Volunteer
This is summary for this planting volunteer on June 29. Let's see our collaboration from Malaysian friends!
It All Starts With Seeds
Lack of seed supply networks of indigenous forest tree species seriously limits forest restoration initiatives, when enthusiasm for ecological restoration has never been higher.
Droning for Seeds
Collecting seeds on the massive scale needed to satisfy the plethora of forest-ecosystem restoration projects around the world may need a radical new approach. Could modern technologies help?
Nunie and FORRU-CMU
A short article on how M.R. Smansnid Svasti (Nunie) played a pivotal role is getting FORRU-CMU started.
Reaping the Rewards of Forest Restoration
An article originally written for Guidelines Magazine, in 2002, describing FORRU-CMU's early work on evergreen forest restoration in collaboration with the villagers of Ban Mae Sa Mai.
Links to stories about FORRU-CMU
This pages contains links to media produced by various journalists who have reported on FORRU-CMU's work over the years.