The Food and Agriculture Organization, in collaboration with the Forestry Commission and the World Food Forum Ghana Chapter, has convened a training workshop under its AIM4Forests Young Forest Champions initiative to build the capacity of young leaders in forest monitoring, restoration, and climate action.  

 

At COP30, Brazil presented its first consolidated national estimate of native vegetation under restoration — 3.4 million hectares of — marking a historic step toward achieving the country's goal of restoring 12 million hectares of native vegetation by 2030, under the National Plan for the Recovery of Native Vegetation (Planaveg, acronym in Portuguese).

As dawn breaks over the Ororubá Mountains in Pernambuco, Brazil, a group of Indigenous youth of the Xukuru do Ororubá people gather at the edge of a nursery. They tend to native plant and tree seedlings: especially species used for medicinal purposes which were once lost but are now being revived.

Belém, Brazil – The UK Government today announced long-term funding of GBP 16.9 million for the Accelerating Innovative Monitoring for Forests (AIM4Forests) programme of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

In October 2025, a regional exchange workshop was held in Lima, bringing together 40 representatives of Indigenous Peoples and forest community organizations from nine countries across Latin America and the Caribbean— including Ecuador, Brazil, Bolivia, Colombia, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, and Peru.  

As Ghana faces increasing threats from deforestation, illegal mining and climate change, the Forestry Commission is calling on the nation’s youth to take active leadership role in forest conservation and climate action, describing their participation as vital to securing a sustainable future for the nation.

Kosovo has taken an important step in advancing its forest monitoring by launching the third cycle (2024–2025) of the National Forest Inventory (NFI). Building on earlier inventories conducted in 2002 and 2012, this new cycle marks a major technological leap forward through the integration of Open Foris Arena and Arena Mobile – open-source digital platforms that streamline data collection, processing, and quality assurance. 

At the World Food Forum 2025, the side event “Young Forest Champions: Indigenous and Rural Youth in Action” celebrated youth leadership in forest monitoring, restoration, and sustainable food systems — culminating in the launch of the Global Youth Network for Forest Monitoring. Hosted by the FAO Forestry Division through the AIM4Forests programme...

Representatives of Indigenous Peoples and community organizations from Peru, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Panama, Guatemala, and Colombia, gathered in Lima for the Regional Exchange on Forest Monitoring for Climate Finance and Indigenous Governance. The event was orga...

On September 29, the campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP) hosted the inauguration of the FAO Young Forest Champions - AIM4Forests Workshop, co-organized with FAO headquarters, FAO Peru, the World Food Forum, and the British Embassy in Lima.

Forest data was at the center of the Global Transparency Forum 2025, a gathering organized under the Climate Transparency Platform to bring together governments, technical experts, and international organizations. Held in Songdo, Republic of Korea, the Forum provided a space to exchange experiences on how countries can meet the transparency requirements of the Paris Agreement.

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is supporting the design of an ambitious new global facility for securing the future of tropical forests, discussed at a high-level event in New York this week on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).

Mongolia has taken a decisive step toward modernizing its forest monitoring system by advancing the digital management of its national forest inventory (NFI) through the Open Foris Arena platform developed by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

A strong national forest monitoring system (NFMS) is the foundation for transparent, sustainable and science-based forest management. From 7 May to 6 June 2025, the Forestry Division delivered the Institutionalization of Forest Data online facilitated course in collaboration with the FA...

From July 28 to 30, the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change (MMA), in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO), and with the support of The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Brazilian Coalition on Climate, Forests and Agriculture, held a national technical-scientific workshop in Brasília to advance the design of Brazil’s geospatial monitoring system for native vegetation recovery.

The Federal Government of Nigeria, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the Global Forest Observations Initiative (GFOI), has kicked-off the collaboration under the AIM4Forests project aimed at addressing technical and functional gaps to strengthen the country’s forest monitoring capacities as a basis for sustainable forest management and for potential future access to carbon finance.

Rome and Bandung, Indonesia – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations today unveiled the first major redesign of its open-source forest monitoring platform, Open Foris, since its launch over 15 years ago. Developed as FAO’s first open-source project, Open Foris has grown into a widely used suite of digital solutions for forest and land monitoring, with more than 250,000 users in 196 countries.

A new generation of environmental stewards is stepping up to combat deforestation in Uganda, as the Young Forest Champion Workshop, a collaborative effort by Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Uganda, the Ministry of Water and Environment, the National Forestry Authority (NFA), and Youth Go Green, concluded its three-day intensive programme on July 16, 2025, at Mpanga Forest.