New Trees that Breathe Life into a Degraded Landscape
IUCN helps restore a forest landscape to benefit local communities in Northern Thailand …
30 Jun 2008 | News story
Philippines hosts the first national FLR workshop in Asia
Nearly 60 percent of Philippine’s official forest land lacks any forest cover today, and only 15 percent of the remainder is covered by closed forests. To help address this problem, a national training workshop on Forest Landscape Restoration, co-organized by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) was held recently. …
26 May 2006 | Event
Forest Landscape Restoration Gives Liberia Unique Opportunity to Rehabilitate Refugee Camps
The recently held UNEP-sponsored workshop on Population Displacement and the Environment on the impact of population displacement on environment in Liberia comes at a timely moment for this war-torn country. …
09 May 2006 | Event
Forest Landscape Restoration to meet Ghana’s deforestation challenges
In Ghana, the total forest cover has declined from 7.5. million hectares to 6.3 million hectares between 1990 and 2000, and the current rate of deforestation is estimated at three percent per year. Forest Landscape Restoration, which aims at regaining ecological integrity and enhancing human well-being in deforested or degraded forest landscapes, is the World Conservation Union's response to Ghana's challenges. …
08 Feb 2006 | News story
