Rome – In response to the urgent need to address more frequent and extreme wildfires, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) has today released new guidance to help countries strengthen the rules and processes they have in place for managing wildfire...

A new FAO guide is calling for stronger national forest biosecurity systems to help countries protect forests from the growing threat of forest pests and invasive species, the spread of which is being accelerated by global trade, the movement of people and goods, and climate change.

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.