Mongabay: The United Nations Climate Summit at the end of September saw a host of governments, agencies and organizations rally around an international agreement aimed at stopping deforestation called the New York Declaration on Forests. In it, three African nations were recognized for their commitments to restore collectively more than 25 million hectares of forest an area larger than the West African country of Guinea part of a plan to restore 350 million hectares of forest by 2030.
But several organizations...