Scientists cut climbing vines from a damaged Borneo forest. Its canopy then grew three times faster, and the method may cost 10 times less than tree planting
Dipterocarp forest at the Danum Valley Field Centre. Borneo’s tropical forests, dominated by trees from the Dipterocarp family, have some of the highest canopies in the world, with some trees reaching 100 meters Simply cutting back aggressive climbing vines in logged tropical forests allows the tree canopy to recover three times faster than planting new…
