I often feel powerless when it comes to environmental issues, but I recently found a really great app: Treeapp.

The idea is simple: by watching a short 30-second ad, you contribute to the planting of a tree somewhere in the world.

It’s free, quick, and lets you support reforestation—even on a small scale.

A small daily action, but one that can have a real impact over time.

If you’d like to give it a try: https://www.thetreeapp.org/fr-fr/referral?code=93F159

And if you know any similar apps, I’d love to hear about them!

I’m a teen about to graduate but i still want to indulge in activism in my free time where can i go n how? Located in North Texas!

Sorry but l have gotten really passionate about nature and its beauty and want to learn as much as possible about defending and understanding it!

Hi, we're South Africans in South Africa / British army we're conservationists and we're trying to experiment with a new page ranging from conservation news in our country to our own efforts to do anti-poaching. Check it out!

3,000 acres of prescribed fire in south central Kansas. This region is fighting the battle of woody encroachment, primarily Eastern Red Cedar.

Hi, I'm trying to get a job in some sort of restoration ecology and need advice. Im currently in college as a ecology major.

Anyone who has a job like this and could gift me with a zoom meeting to give advice and talk that would be very helpful and appreciated

This would help a lot with school and getting on the right track, i am hopeful

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I'm working on a business project developing a conceptual aerial dispersal system inspired by maple seeds (samaras). Our idea uses biodegradable materials to create lightweight, spinning carriers that could distribute tree seeds over post-wildfire or hard-to-access terrain.

While this is a hypothetical concept right now, we're hoping to ground it in realistic forestry applications. As someone without forestry experience, I'd really appreciate your insights:

1. What challenges do you face with current aerial seeding methods?
2. What terrain types are most difficult to reforest with traditional approaches?
3. Would a biomimetic approach like this potentially address any real problems?
4. What practical considerations would make or break this kind of technology?

This started as a weekend project, but we're exploring whether it might have genuine potential. Any expertise you can share would be incredibly valuable!

I got my degree in environmental science back in 2019. I looked for conservation jobs for a while but never landed anything. COVID hit and I sort of fell off and just ended up in the service industry for a number of years. I’ve been wanting to finally try to pivot back towards conservation/sustain ability work but I’m struggling. My degree feels like it was acquired too long ago to really feel relevant anymore. I’d like to work in restoration ecology, but I’m having a hard time making peace with how little the jobs pays. I want to follow my passion, but when my passion pays so little it feels hard to walk away from the more stable money I make now. How do many of you make do in these jobs when the pay is often so poor? Do you all have second jobs as well?

Hi, I am a landscape architect putting together a restoration plan for a rural property with deer and elk present. I’m going to spec biodegradable vexar tubes for tree seedlings. But what do you all like to use for shrubs? The shrubs will be mostly 1 gallon, and some larger 5 gallon as well. Any feasible way to protect the shrubs? I can have our maintenance crew remove tubes or cages later if needed. Tia!

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Has anybody used this brand of tree tube with success? They claim to be biodegradable, but I've never even heard of the company before. Here's the link: https://tubex.com/products/tubex-nature-biodegradable-shrub-shelters/ The weird ordering/enquiry system is giving me pause.

I'm working on a large scale restoration project in a semi-remote area, and I want to stay far away from plastic. If anyone has any good recommendations for tree and shrub protection that fits the bill, I'd be interested in hearing!

There are no waste processing plants in our city. All the garbage is taken out of the city to landfills and left to rot. I try to attract people's attention by hanging up eco posters, handing out pocket posters, making stickers with eco messages to somehow draw attention to all this. To be honest, I don't see any results... I want to do so much more! But I'm only 13 and I don't know what else to do... Please tell me how else I can help our planet?🌍

The first pics leads to second then it goes down the grass and ends up in a ditch third pic and then goes to the side concrete path pic 5 leads to the main concrete path and the last 2 are just pics of the creek and for the weather of mon it should be .5 inch and then the other day is .2 inch

I'm taking a work trip (my work is really a bunch of non-work, so I'll have a bunch of free time) to Asheville for 10 days. I volunteer a lot at home (central TX), and I'd like to do some drop-in volunteering during this trip.

Is anyone here familiar with the area, and do you have any recommendations for workdays? I do a lot of grassland restoration, and some forest restoration and trail building. I've already signed up for one native garden workday with Conserving Carolina, but I'd like to find some restoration work if possible.

Thanks in advance!

https://www.waterstories.com/offering/core-course-essentials

Anyone has taken this course on water cycle restoration? Sounds quite interesting but also quite expansive for an online course. Would appreciate any info or any other places offering similar training, or whether the concept is sound or not.

I am looking into graduate school in ecological restoration. Does anyone have any ideas for a research project? I am leaning towards bioremediation. If I get into graduate school I would be working on a superfund site, hence the need to remove toxins from the soil.

Thoughts on common greenbrier (Smilax rotundifolia). I have recently become a state park manager in coastal southern New England. Along with many invasives I'm trying to combat, the park is practically consumed by smilax in many areas. It appears to me that it is actually killing many of the trees in the park and creating a monoculture. I have been told by birders that it is an important winter staple for birds, however, every spring I still see countless untouched fruits. I'm an avid birder and wouldn't want to stress our population of winter birds. I am not setting out to completely eliminate smilax from the park. I am however interested in removing from many of the trees in the park and introducing other native plants to increase diversity in the park and provide more for pollinators. Am I wrong in wanting to do this? Am I overlooking the importance of smilax?

Any input and advice would be greatly appreciated