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Talking Forests: Cristina Banks-Leite on Restoring the Amazon
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- The Nature Recovery Podcast
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- Nov 26, 2025
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- 1843
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Summary
Send us Fan Mail Professor Cristina Banks-Leite (Imperial College London) discusses the realities of tropical forest restoration: from large-scale reforestation projects and the practical challenges of seedlings, land tenure and finance, to why measured “success” can look counter-intuitive. She explains why current biodiversity metrics often miss the point, and how novel tools (like acoustic monitoring and AI) could transform how we listen to and protect ecosystems. A thoughtful conversation ...