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Deforestation has slowed down but still remains a concern
The finding comes in its latest Global Forest Resources Assessment report (FRA 2020), which aims to turn the tide on deforestation, or the conversion...
Long-term data series are key to assess health of forests
Forest ecosystems are affected by many different stressors, such as climate change and air pollution. Drought periods, like the one in 2018, strongly reduce...
As the world’s forests continue to shrink, urgent action is needed to safeguard their biodiversity
Urgent action is needed to safeguard the biodiversity of the world’s forests amid alarming rates of deforestation and degradation, according to the latest edition...
Harnessing tech to employ last-mile tree planters in a COVID-19 world
The year 2020 started with such optimism and hope for nature-based solutions and environmental sustainability.
Environmental, social and governance investments were high on the agenda at...
Plantation Project in Pakistan got International appreciation
The outbreak has forced us to keep social distances, all around the world. Few countries applied strict lockdown while others opted for partial or...
Guterres: Turn around deforestation in 2020, the ‘Nature Super Year’
On the International Day of Forests, which falls on Saturday, UN chief António Guterres is calling for
2020, which has been referred to as a...
UNECE and FAO support Kazakhstan’s development of forest sector Master Plan
Forests are high on the
political agenda of Kazakhstan. The country has been developing a strategic
document for the country’s forest sector, in collaboration with the...
Lao PDR: Additional World Bank Financing for Sustainable Forest Management
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved US$5 million
in additional financing to the Scaling-Up Participatory Sustainable Forest
Management Project, which will help the...
Fifteen Years to Save the Amazon Rainforest from Becoming Savannah
The pace of deforestation in the Amazon, coupled with last year’s
devastating forest fires, has pushed the world’s largest rainforest close to a
tipping point beyond...
Ambitious project to restore Andean forests
Growing at altitudes of up to 5,000 metres, polylepis forests,
comprising 28 recognized shrub and tree species endemic to the mid- and
high-elevation regions of the...