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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.

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

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

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.

The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 sub-regional workshop for East and South-East Asia took place in Tokyo  hosted by the Forestry Agency of Japan and it attracted FRA National Correspondents from 13 countries .