12 March 2013 News on the launch of the fieldwork for the Brazilan NFI in the state of Paraná - from the web site of the Serviço Florestal Brasileiro [article in Portuguese] [more]

20 February 2013 How is FAO supporting countries in their National Forest Inventories? Watch videos from Tanzania, Ecuador, Nicaragua and Kyrgyzstan. [more]

5 February 2013 The Finnish government is working together with FAO to provide Viet Nam with the funding and expertise which will allow the country to plant the seeds of a sustainable and profitable forest management. Through these partnerships, Vietnam is building on its successes in sustainable forestry in recent years. [more]

1 December 2012 Forest services in most countries are now required to make more accurate assessment of forest carbon stocks and carbon stock changes. Jointly published by FAO and the French research centre CIRAD, the Manual for building tree volume and biomass allometric equations is the first tool to provide all the necessary information from the field up to the biomass estimation. The appropriate development and use of tree allometric equations are particularly important when assessing forest carbon stocks and will help national policymakers to make informed decisions regarding bioenergy development and climate change mitigation activities. [more]

4 October 2012 A Share fair event was organized during COFO 2012 to provide an opportunity for stakeholders to have a dialogue in an informal setting. All participants were given the chance to share their experiences, challenges and solutions in a way that can be inspirational or instructive for other countries Click for more information [more]

31 August 2012 The Minister of Lands, Natural Resources and Environmental Protection, Hon. Wylbur Simuusa MP., delivered a speech on ZNBC Television on the occasion of the launch of the country wide integrated land use field assessment (Phase II). Read the speech here. [more]

16 May 2012 FAO is helping scientists and policymakers in Tanzania evaluate how much carbon is stored in forests and forests soils, which will enable them to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. mplemented by the Tanzanian government and FAO and funded by Tanzania and Finland, the $5.6 million project involves 16 field teams which have been working for two years, collecting field data from 3,400 sites in Tanzania. Soil sampling is being carried on 25 percent of these sites. [more]

2 December 2011 Angola's NFI benefits from FAO's Global Remote Sensing Survey [more]

27 September 2011 How information is gathered and used for national policy decision. Snapshot of FAO's work on: Forest Resources Assessment and Information & National Forest Program (including FAO collaboration with Swedish institutions). Meeting arranged jointly by The Forest Initiative (FI), FAO, SLU. [more]

20 July 2011 GEF announced the successful launch of the project “Strengthening National Policy and Knowledge Framework in Support of Sustainable Management of Brazil´s Forest Resources”. This project aims to provide good quality information and analysis on forest resources and land use to improve policies and decision making by stakeholders so as to increase Brazilian forests contribution to national sustainable development. The initiative is designed as a five-year project, mainly to provide technical assistance to develop the core capacities and support the implementation of the NFM&AS. It will be executed with FAO as implementing agency and the Brazilian Forest Service (BFS) as the primary executing partner. [more]

23 March 2011 The Second phase of the Integrated Land Use Assessment of Zambia (ILUA II) was successfully launched on November 2010. [more]

22 December 2010 Bishkek (AKI) - National forest inventory of Kyrgyzstan has shown satisfactory results, announced at a press conference in agency "Kabar" Head of the Office of Environmental Monitoring and Forest inventory Venera Surappaeva. According to her, monitoring has shown that forests cover 5.6% of the country. "It has been defined forest area, and now we need to define their boundaries and ownership, who will manage them" - she said. "The next time we will through the inventory be able to evaluate the trends in increasing or decreasing forest area of the country", - she said. As noted by the State Secretary of the State Agency of Environment and Forestry Abdymital Chengozhoev, the national forest inventory was carried out during the last 2 years and it assessed not only the forest area, but also its quality and species composition. The inventory was not carried out by the “Soviet method” previously used, but new methods provided by donors (FAO). [more]

22 December 2010 Kabar, December 17, 2010. "Kyrgyzstan has completed a national inventory of forests", - said at a press conference in agency "Kabar" Mr Abdymital Chyngozhoev, State Secretary of the State Agency of Environment and Forestry of the Republic. According to him, this work was initiated in 2008 with the support of the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations). Every 5 years in our country, we took into account forest on Soviet methods. But that method is outdated. This type of inventory is the first in the Central Asian region, and Kyrgyzstan is the first country to implement it and our people worked together on this. "This is a very big job. We wanted to get reliable data about our forests and we need to think about tomorrow's forest conservation "- said the State Secretary. As a result, the inventory showed 1,123,045.2 ha of forest in Kyrgyzstan (5,26%), of which 846,043.4 hectares (4.23%) were found in the territory of the State Forest Fund (SFF) and Protected Areas (PAs), while outside the territory of SFF and PAs - 277,001.8 hectares (1.39%) were found. Great concern over illegal felling of Christmas trees now just before the holidays was discussed, and according to A. Chyngozhoeva, permissions were given to two forest enterprises in Chui and Issyk-Ata, to provide firs for schools and kindergartens in Bishkek. "According to Forest law, the penalty shall be imposed on the length of harvested trees, "- said the head of the environmental monitoring and forest management Camille Ashimov. Note that the forest inventory system in Kyrgyzstan dates back to 1995, but as of 2008 it has evolved to 2-level system, (by analogy with European countries), to provide national level information through National Forest Inventory (NFI), in addition to the operational planning level of forest information (forest management plan inventory), (R. Almakunova). [more]

9 February 2010 Situation du projet d’évaluation des ressources forestières nationales (IFN) au Congo au 31 décembre 2009: 82 Unités d’échantillonnage (UE), sur un échantillon global de 450, ont déjà fait l’objet d’un traitement complet (collecte des données sur le terrain, saisie et apurement des données). Ce qui correspond à un taux de réalisation du travail de terrain d’environ 18%. La collecte des données biophysiques et socio-économiques se poursuivra dans les 368 unités d’échantillonnage restantes en 2010. La prochaine descente sur le terrain est programmée pour le début du mois de Février 2010, et prévoit la mobilisation de 15 équipes de terrain. [more]

1 February 2010 National Forest Monitoring and Assessment and FRA2010 Remote Sensing Survey programs: collaboration on the Angola example [more]

28 September 2009 The NFMA will participate at the WFC 2009 with a Side Event on: National forest monitoring and assessment: an essential tool for national policies and international reporting [more]

14 July 2009 During the last week of June 2009, through an informational and promotional workshop, Peru started the activities toward the formulation of the project for a National Forest Monitoring and Assessment. The event was carried out under the leadership of the Head Office of Forestry and Wildlife under the Ministry of Environment. The main stakeholders of the forestry sector participated in the event, among others, regional governments, universities, the institute for studies in the Amazon region of Peru and the private sector were present. It was agreed by all the participants that a high priority should be placed on the assessment and monitoring of natural resources to support decision making , forestry development policies and monitoring GHG in line with the REDD mechanism. Peru is the ninth country in the world in terms of forest area and the second in the Latin American Region. So far, efforts have been made for generating information in the various regions of the country, there is no doubt that it is now necessary to organize and harmonize all these initiatives and establish a system of forest monitoring at national level. [more]

1 June 2009 Mr. Jim Carle, Chief FOMR, presented on "Support to Forest Inventory and Monitoring in Developing Countries" and NFMA activities at IUFRO Division 4 - Extending Forest Inventory and Monitoring over Space and Time - May 19-22, 2009 Quebec City, Canada. More here: http://skog.for.msu.edu/meeting/index.html [more]

30 March 2009 Finland and FAO signed a €14 million partnership agreement to improve forest data collection and analysis as well as management skills in selected developing countries for sustainable forest management [more]

24 March 2009 NFMA held a Side Event during COFO 2009 titled "National forest monitoring and assessment & Climate Change". Speaker's presentations are now available on line. [more]

22 November 2008 a website with information and background documents for the Expert Consultation: National Forest Monitoring and Assessment: Meeting Evolving Needs [26 - 28 November 2008 FAO Rome, Italy], is now online. [more]