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Leroy Ignacio, Whitley Award, Red Siskin Songbirds ©Chung Liu
15/05/2024
Guyanese conservationist and co-founder of the South Rupununi Conservation Society Leroy Ignacio has won a prestigious Whitley Award for his outstanding grassroots conservation work in Guyana’s Rupununi region.  
Nominate a UN World Restoration Flagship
16/04/2024
The UN World Restoration Flagships are the most ambitious, promising or successful examples of large-scale ecosystem restoration. They offer an opportunity for initiatives and countries to be globally recognized and celebrated for their restoration success stories.
Chris Steele-Perkins Magnum Photos for FAO
08/04/2024
Forest and farm producer organizations representing the world’s smallholder farmers, Indigenous Peoples and local communities are gathering in Pokhara, Nepal, this week to explore how to best manage the world’s agrobiodiversity.

Publications

Towards sustainable wildlife management
2022

Zambia and Zimbabwe, with Angola, Botswana, and Namibia, constitute the Kavango Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area (KaZa-TFCA), which is the largest transfrontier conservation area in the world (520 000 km²), whose key objective is to join fragmented wildlife habitats to form an interconnected mosaic of protected areas and transboundary wildlife corridors. In this region, wildlife populations have declined over the past three decades, mainly due to poaching and loss of habitat.

2022

The Tarija region of southern Bolivia encompasses four ecosystems, including the critically endangered Inter-Andean dry forests. Much of the forest composition has changed as a result of intensive human intervention.

2022

This case study highlights the process undertaken since 2001 to understand the effect honey bees had on elephants and to develop, evaluate and implement beehive fences at several sites in Kenya.

Videos

Forest and landscape restoration in the Philippines
13/02/2024

Philippine's forest ecosystems provide services and economic benefits to communities. The FAO Forest and Landscape Restoration Mechanism strengthens...

International Mountain Day 2023 – Restoring mountain ecosystems
11/12/2023

From climate regulation and water provisioning services, to soil maintenance and conservation, mountains are key to our lives and livelihoods.

Five ways to achieve sustainable wildlife management in Congo
01/11/2023

Discover how the Sustainable Wildlife Management (SWM) Programme, in collaboration with local communities and the government, aims at improving wildlife...

Restoring land and livelihoods with beekeeping in Tanzania
20/05/2023

In northern Tanzania, recurring drought in recent years caused by climate change has put pressure on communities who make their livelihoods by keeping...

Living with wildlife in Botswana: Godlop's story - #SWMProgramme
19/05/2023

This video gives an insight into the SWM Programme work with ranchers and community scouts in the Habu Community Conservancy, which is located in the...

International Day of Forests 2023: Healthy Forests for Healthy People
21/03/2023

Conserving and sustainably using forests is one of the best ways of protecting our planet and ourselves. Healthy forests are vital for all aspects of...

Following a passion for wildlife and community development: Chipo’s story
24/01/2023

What is it like to work as a wildlife scout in Zimbabwe? Watch this video to experience a typical day in the life of Chipo, a young community natural...

Geya and the three forest pathways: Steps to a forest-led green recovery and inclusive, resilient and sustainable economies
01/12/2022

Forest pathways have the potential to provide decentralized solutions that are highly cost-effective and can be implemented comparatively rapidly...

Sustainable wood: Climate-friendly cities
01/12/2022

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Sustainable wood: Housing a growing population
27/10/2022

A growing population means more buildings to fit everyone. By 2030, we will have to house an additional 3 billion people. Using wood from sustainably...