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Regional Workshop organized by FAO in Nadi, Fiji, to support twelve representatives from Pacific countries in compiling data for the Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2025).

FAO FRA 2025 sub-regional workshop for Anglophone Africa was held on 28/04/2023 in Hwange, Zimbabwe to provide technical assistance on the online platform used to compile the country reports.

Regional workshop held in Panama by the FRA team of the FAO Forestry Division to support FRA 2025 country reporting.

The FAO sub-regional office supported the organization of the FRA 2025 workshop for the Caribbean the first of a series of regional and sub-regional workshops organized as part of the data collection and review process.

Primary forest workshop session organized by FAO and OFAC/COMIFAC in Douala, Cameroon to improve Central African primary forest reporting.

Safeguarding mountain vegetation: FAO receives 2021 GEO Sustainable Development Goals Award.

FAO-led experts' exchange on primary forests continues with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region this week to review national definitions, monitoring and reporting methods.

FAO’s Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) open-access platform has now been optimized for mobile view, allowing easier access to forest data and trends for 236 countries and territories.

The first global study on national forest monitoring capacities has been published in the Journal Environmental Research Letters. This paper shows substantial improvements in national forest monitoring capacities around the globe.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has released an open data platform containing all the data on the world’s forests in all six official UN languages.

Forestry experts are meeting in Jalisco, Mexico this week to improve understanding of primary forests, some of the most unique biodiversity hotspots in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).

International experts will discuss in a virtual 5-day workshop different approaches countries have adopted to monitor primary forests in the boreal biome to develop innovative ways to improve data and information.

FAO's Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 offers detailed regional and global analyses in a new, digitally interactive way.

Launch of the results of FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020.

Release of FAO FRA 2020 on July 2020.

FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA) provides essential information for understanding the extent of forest resources, their condition, management and uses. 

"How data helps protect our forests?" by FAO. 

African forest experts are using satellite imagery to assess the forest resources of the continent through a virtual training as part of the FRA 2020 Remote Sensing Survey. 

FAO publishes key findings of benchmark Global Forest Resources Assessment.

FAO and GEF team up in new project to make forest data more transparent, accessible and available.