Using free and open source software for forest monitoring and assessment, such as Open Foris, is critical to ensure the sustainability of Bangladesh Forest Department’s mandate to manage and conserve forests in Bangladesh. Development of a strong forest monitoring system with suitable baseline information archive is necessary for sustainable tree and forest resource management. An enriched baseline largely rely on robust inventory data collection with proper data management and analyzing process. Under Bangladesh Forest Inventory (BFI), a software application developed in FAO called 'Open Foris Collect' is being used to ensure efficient data collection and management. The Bangladesh Forest Department, with...

The Bangladesh Forest Department, with technical support from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, and in collaboration with universities, is finalizing the field data collection for the Bangladesh Forest Inventory. With the objective to re-locate the field inventory plots and monitor forest changes over time, the latest technological advances are used. Effective monitoring depends wholly on the ability to re-locate the exact centre of the plots after several years between visits so that changes can be accurately recorded.    Several approaches are used to re-locate the plots, such as recording the geographic coordinates of the plot centre using...

Grâce au renforcement de la collaboration entre la FAO et la Norvège, il sera maintenant plus facile d'accéder aux données satellite et aux technologies géospatiales dernier cri. L'Initiative internationale pour le climat et les forêts (NICFI) va par ailleurs développer une plateforme numérique de la FAO qui aide les pays à mesurer, à surveiller et à rendre compte de la situation de leurs forêts et de l'utilisation des terres. Annoncé lors du Forum sur les forêts tropicales d'Oslo, le projet qui s'étalera sur une période de trois ans a été estimé à 6 millions de dollars et permettra d'améliorer la portée de SEPAL (Système d'accès aux...

With the objective to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation and enhance carbon sequestration from afforestation and reforestation activities, the Government of Bangladesh is developing the Forest Reference Level for the implementation of REDD+ mechanism under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The UNFCCC has defined Forest Reference Level as benchmark for assessing country's performance in implementing REDD+ activities. REDD+ results compare greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions during REDD+ implementation against the reference level. On 11 April 2018, the Bangladesh Forest Department, with technical support from FAO and the UN-REDD programme, organized a national consultation on proposed Forest Reference Levels (FRL) for...

More than 1,200 participants from government, business, civil society and the research community gathered on 23–25 April in Yogyakarta, Indonesia to take part in the 3rd Asia-Pacific Rainforest Summit (APRS) 2018. Co-hosted by the Indonesian Government with the support of the Australian Government, and in partnership with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), the event followed up on the success of the APRS 2016 held in Brunei Darussalam and the APRS 2014 held in Australia. The APRS 2018 provided a forum for governmental and non-governmental participants from 40 countries across Asia-Pacific to discuss the most pressing issues facing the...