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News

Djibo, Burkina Faso - A young man planting seedlings
Land restoration: Our legacy for generations to come
17/06/2024
On Desertification and Drought Day, FAO's Tiina Vähänen and Moctar Sacande explain in this op ed the importance of putting land stewardship at the centre of sustainable development to ensure a healthy, food secure world for younger generations.
Leroy Ignacio, Whitley Award, Red Siskin Songbirds ©Chung Liu
Sustainable Wildlife Management Programme partner wins prestigious Whitley Award
15/05/2024
Guyanese conservationist and co-founder of the South Rupununi Conservation Society Leroy Ignacio has won a prestigious Whitley Award for his outstanding grassroots conservation work in Guyana’s Rupununi region.  
Nominate a UN World Restoration Flagship
Nominate a UN World Restoration Flagship
16/04/2024
The UN World Restoration Flagships are the most ambitious, promising or successful examples of large-scale ecosystem restoration. They offer an opportunity for initiatives and countries to be globally recognized and celebrated for their restoration success stories.
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Publications

Fostering Linkages Between Sustainable Wood Supply and Forest and Landscape Restoration in the Asia-Pacific
Fostering linkages between sustainable wood supply and forest and landscape restoration in Asia and the Pacific
2024

Enhancing sustainable wood supply from restoring degraded lands with planted forests, and agroforestry systems.

Wildlife and people in the Rupununi
Wildlife and people in the Rupununi
2024

A comprehensive assessment based on science and local knowledge.

Play more, live better! Using sustainable widlife management games to help adults and children collaborate and solve complex problems together
Play more, live better! Using sustainable wildlife management games to help adults and children collaborate and solve complex problems together
2024

This publication is a case study on the development and testing of innovative no-tech or low-tech games to manage wildlife hunting sustainably.

Five ways to achieve sustainable wildlife management in Congo

Discover how the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme, in collaboration with local communities and the government, aims at improving wildlife conservation and livelihoods of native communities in Northern Congo. 

01/11/2023

Elearning Academy

Using land-cover information to monitor progress on Sustainable Development Goal 15
Using land-cover information to monitor progress on Sustainable Development Goal 15
15/03/2024

This course provides a basic understanding of land-cover data and its use for monitoring progress towards the achievement of international agreed goals,...

Planning seed and seedling supply for forest and landscape restoration
Planning seed and seedling supply for forest and landscape restoration
01/09/2023

This course explores how to plan seed and seedling supply for forest and landscape restoration.

Elearning resilient rivers
Resilient rivers: Watershed-based management of forests, freshwater, and inland fisheries
01/03/2023

Focusing on freshwater systems, this course inspires managers, scientists, and community members to understand, monitor and manage watersheds as integrated...