Forest management
Sustainable Forest Management Toolbox
The Sustainable Forest Management Toolbox is a comprehensive collection of tools, best practices and case studies to help forest owners and managers; policymakers; students and other stakeholders implement sustainable forest management.
News
COP30: FAO’s AIM4Forests secures long-term financial support from the United Kingdom
15/11/2025
FAO welcomes COP30 leaders’ call to action on wildfire resilience
07/11/2025
The women replanting Argentina’s future
05/11/2025
Publications
Wildlife and people in the Rupununi
2024
A comprehensive assessment based on science and local knowledge.
Play more, live better! Using sustainable wildlife management games to help adults and children collaborate and solve complex problems together
2024
This publication is a case study on the development and testing of innovative no-tech or low-tech games to manage wildlife hunting sustainably.
Kwinda Nyama: A multiplayer hunting game for social learning and sustainable use
2024
Nearly 1 billion people globally rely on wild food for their daily nutrition. The Wildlife Conservation Society, with support from the SWM Programme, developed this low-tech, multiplayer decision-making game with rural communities in the Republic of the Congo and in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Low-tech games can help communities manage wildlife sustainably.
Videos
Expanding Africa's Great Green Wall
02/05/2016
Land restoration in northern Niger is making degraded areas productive again, providing economic opportunities in a region where migration has become...
FAO climate change in Tanzania
01/04/2016
How the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Tanzania is helping people cope with climate change. Water management, sustainable...
Papua New Guinea: First national forest inventory and biodiversity survey
09/09/2015
Papua New Guinea is embarking on its first national forest inventory (NFI) under the arrangements for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest...