{"id":39599,"date":"2026-06-01T09:00:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/?p=39599"},"modified":"2026-06-01T09:00:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T05:00:56","slug":"pioneering-women-revive-ecological-succession-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/pioneering-women-revive-ecological-succession-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pioneering women revive ecological succession"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pioneer trees play a key role in ecological restoration. But their virtues need to be recognized by all those involved in restoring the country’s natural habitats. After years of research, biologist Fran\u00e7ois Baguette has completed an edifying doctorate on the most widespread pioneer tree in our rainforests: <\/b>Harungana madagascariensis<\/i><\/b> or the famous <\/b>harongue<\/b><\/span>…<\/b> Dominique Bellier<\/em><\/p>\n

Over 80 million hectares of tropical forest have been destroyed in the last 20 years. On a global scale, we’re a long way from the goal of restoring 350 millionhectares<\/span> by 2030, even if it has triggered a frenzy of initiatives, often more lucrative than effective, described under the catch-all term of “forest restoration”. Oceanic islands are among the hardest hit, such as Mauritius, which has lost 95% <\/span>of its original vegetation cover since it was first colonized. Despite the efforts of conservation services, our native forests and biodiversity are still declining. It is therefore imperative to adopt restoration methods of proven effectiveness. The use of pioneer species to drive “natural succession” is one such method… <\/p>\n

Harongue wood has an underestimated potential in Mauritius, not only for ecological restoration, but also for its medicinal, cosmetic and handicraft virtues. With the exception of the Mauritian public domain, where we have learned to preserve it, here we tend to cut it down… And yet, like an emergency doctor in a theater of war, this species thrives in forests that have been stripped bare, particularly following the control of invasive exotic species such as the Chinese guava. Needing sunlight to grow, and perfectly suited to poor, degraded soils, it rapidly “heals” the forest. <\/p>\n

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\nMature Harungana \u00a9 FBV Florens \"\"Harungana GP flowers \u00a9 FBV Florens \"\"Clusters of flowers \u00a9 Fran\u00e7ois Baguette \"\"Harungana fruit & insect \u00a9 Yogishah Bunsy \"\"Orchid in bloom \u00a9 Fran\u00e7ois Baguette<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pioneer trees play a key role in ecological restoration. But their virtues need to be recognized by all those involved in restoring the country’s natural habitats. After years of research, biologist Fran\u00e7ois Baguette has completed an edifying doctorate on the most widespread pioneer tree in our rainforests: Harungana madagascariensis or the famous harongue… Dominique Bellier […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":39358,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1763],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-39599","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ecology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39671,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39599\/revisions\/39671"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}