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
Global indicators for monitoring ecosystem restoration
2022
The publication is the result of a joint effort by FAO and the UN Environment. The overall objective of this work is to contribute to the implementation of the UN Decade as well as to the UN Secretary-General’s reporting to the United Nations General Assembly at its eighty-first session.
Valuing, restoring and managing “presumed drylands”: Cerrado, Miombo–Mopane woodlands and the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau
2022
This study confirms the existence of 1,075 million hectares of presumed drylands that are under threat from unsustainable use and climate change.
Co-developing a community camera trapping programme to deliver benefits of living with wildlife
2022
The Rungwa-Ruaha landscape in Tanzania is one of the most important wildlife areas in Africa and it supports one of the world’s largest remaining populations of lions, African wild dogs, cheetahs, leopards and spotted hyaenas.