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Yes, natural landscape restoration can exceed destruction rates with scaled efforts and reduced pressures. Global deforestation has slowed significantly—from 17.6 million hectares annually (1990s) to 10.9 million (2015–2025)—while initiatives like the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration and Bonn Challenge target restoring billions of hectares, yielding benefits exceeding costs 9-fold. Natural regeneration in protected areas often accelerates recovery, but success requires halting ongoing degradation.https://www.fao.org/newsroom/detail/global-deforestation-slows--but-forests-remain-under-pressure--fao-report-shows/en
https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/
https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/critical-decade-ecosystem-restoration/
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