Robin Chazdon

Robin Chazdon is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on tropical forest regeneration and restoration.
Dear Common Dreams Readers:
Corporate media puts the interests of the 1% ahead of all of us. That's wrong. The corporate media and the billionaire class have controlled the narrative for way too long. In totalitarian countries, the government uses state media to manipulate public opinion and squash dissent. In America, corporations use those same tools to convince voters that commonsense, overwhelmingly popular ideas are impossible. But Common Dreams is different. We cover the news that matters. We know another world is possible. But we can’t do it without you. Our critical Winter Campaign is underway. Please—no amount is too large or too small—pitch in to support our people-powered model and keep Common Dreams strong. Thank you. -- Craig Brown, Co-founder
Please select a donation method:
Support Independent Journalism. The only thing that keeps us going is support from readers like you. Every contribution makes a huge difference. PLEASE GIVE NOW
Common Dreams is the nonprofit news source for the 99%
Will you pitch in now to help meet our Winter Campaign goal?
Robin Chazdon is a professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut. Her research focuses on tropical forest regeneration and restoration.
![]() |
Views Saturday, July 06, 2019 Experts Mapped Global Hotspots Where Restoring Tropical Rainforests Would Be Most Beneficial and Least Costly and Risky The green belt of tropical rainforests that covers equatorial regions of the Americas, Africa, Indonesia and Southeast Asia is turning brown. Since 1990, Indonesia has lost 50 percent of its original forest, the Amazon 30 percent, and Central Africa 14 percent. Fires, logging, hunting, road building, and fragmentation have heavily damaged more than 30 percent of those that remain. Read more |