The webinar “Forest and landscape restoration: Participatory approaches and monitoring” on 23 May 2018 gave members of the Online Community of Practice for Forest and Landscape Restoration, which totals 800 members, a chance...

Baseline scenario in Rulindo District, Rwanda Rwanda’s dense and rapidly increasing population, the steep topography of the country with associated soil erosion, as well as unfavorable climatic conditions have caused significant forest, soil and water degradation,...

Around 50 representatives from forestry bureaus of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member states, development organizations, research agencies and financial institutions met in Bangkok, Thailand, 8-9 March 2018 to discuss financing opportunities and...

Welcome to this latest edition of the FLR Mechanism newsletter. In this issue, we present outcomes from some events and processes that the FLR Mechanism has been supporting. These include: launch of the project “Forest...

Forests are integral to providing environmental, social and economic services to the people in the Philippines. Alarmingly, forest cover declined from 16.9 million hectares in 1934 to 8.04 million hectares in 2015. To address this...