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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025
Flagship publication
The State of the World's Forests
International forestry journal
Restoring the Mediterranean region – status and challenges
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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025
10/2025
FAO completed its first assessment of the world’s forest resources in 1948. Since then, the Global Forest Resources Assessment has evolved into a comprehensive evaluation of forest resources and their condition, management and uses, covering all the thematic elements of sustainable forest management. This, the latest of these assessments, examines the status of, and trends in, forest resources over the period 1990–2025, drawing on the efforts of hundreds of experts worldwide.
The status of Mediterranean forests 2025
10/2025
Forests and wooded lands cover 28 percent of the Mediterranean region. Forest area within Mediterranean countries grew by 12 percent between 1990 and 2020, but gains have slowed and requires enhanced sustainable forest management.
Tackling forest crime in West Africa
08/2025
This publication presents a comprehensive training of trainers curriculum designed to strengthen the capacity of forestry enforcement officers in West Africa to effectively combat forest crime.
Bamboo resources assessment
08/2025
Bamboo is one of the fastest-growing species, distributed widely across some of the most biodiverse and carbon-rich areas of the tropics and subtropics in Africa, Asia and South America. This study proposes a simple and practical approach to mapping bamboo on a large scale in Southeast Asia with the help of cloud-computing tools.
A global methodology for the assessment of direct drivers associated with deforestation and degradation
07/2025
This study uses satellite imagery, analysed with open-source tools from the Open Foris package (most notably the System for Earth Observation Data Access, Processing and Analysis for Land Monitoring [SEPAL]) to identify deforestation, degradation and associated direct drivers in six Central African countries.
