Forests and the environment
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News
Preserving Indigenous wisdom requires protecting forests
06/08/2026
To truly celebrate Indigenous healers, we must recognize their living knowledge as firmly rooted in forests and safeguard those ecosystems, FAO’s Sophie Grouwels of the Forest and Farm Facility explains.
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FAO launches ‘4 WINS’ approach to advance women’s entrepreneurship in forest economies
06/03/2026
As part of the celebrations for International Women’s Day on 8 March, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has unveiled a new model for strengthening women’s leadership and entrepreneurship in the world’s forest sectors.
From savannah plant to global remedy
02/03/2026
How the devil’s claw tuber improves health and wildlife conservation in Namibia
Publications
Fostering linkages between sustainable wood supply and forest and landscape restoration in Asia and the Pacific
2024
Enhancing sustainable wood supply from restoring degraded lands with planted forests, and agroforestry systems.
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.