Allowing forests to naturally re-grow has been shown to be an effective strategy in tropical forests, reversing deforestation at a fast rate
Is It Better to Plant Trees or Let Forests Regrow Naturally?
Tropical Dry Forest Plants
One-third of regenerated forests in Brazil are destroyed again
Frontiers Critical Ecological Roles, Structural Attributes and
Do we really need to plant a trillion trees? Tree islands are an ecologically and economically sound strategy to facilitate tropical forest recovery
Supertrees: Meet Congo's caretaker of the forest, the Afrormorsia tree - Vox
Tropical Forest Restoration Natural History of Ecological Restoration
An Overlooked Opportunity for Forest Restoration, Blog, Nature
Tropical Forests Regenerate Without Human Interference - Impakter
Natural regeneration can rapidly re-grow tropical forests
Good news on rain forests: they bounce back strong, storing more carbon than thought
Old-growth forest - Wikipedia
The power of assisted natural regeneration
Conservation Open Access Government
Encouraging and managing natural regeneration - BASC