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Capacity-building workshop for the Mediterranean on the restoration of forests and other ecosystems to support the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

20 - 24 March 2017, Agadir, Morocco

Capacity-building workshop for the Mediterranean on the restoration of forests and other ecosystems to support the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, Agadir, Morocco, 20-24 March 2017

Reference: SCBD/SPS/CG/SBG/CS/LJ/86018 (2016-141)
To: CBD National Focal Points: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, European Union, France, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, State of Palestine, Sudan, Syrian Arab Republic, The former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Tunisia, Turkey, United Kingdom (Gibraltar), and Yemen

Capacity-development workshop for Central, Eastern and Southern Africa on the restoration of forests and other ecosystems to support the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets

2 - 6 October 2017, Durban, South Africa

Capacity-development workshop for Central, Eastern and Southern Africa on the restoration of forests and other ecosystems to support the achievement of the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, 25 - 29 September 2017 - Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

Reference: SCBD/SPS/DC/SBG/CS/VA/86448 (2017-068)
To: CBD National Focal Points from the following countries: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Swaziland, Uganda, United Republic of Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Carbon bomb: Study says climate impact from loss of intact tropical forests grossly underreported

The study calculates new figures relating to intact tropical forest lost between 2000-2013 that show a staggering increase of 626 percent in the long-term net carbon impacts through 2050. The revised total equals two years' worth of all global land-use change emissions.

Casualty of war: Yemen's forests at risk as fuel crisis surges

Beset by violence, engulfed by chaos for years, Yemen's problems might be on the verge of growing even more and spilling into an environmental crisis as well.

Central American Congress on Forestry

21 - 23 May 2003, Panama City, Panama

Certification and World Forestry

25 September 2003, Quebec City, Canada

Certified Forest Products International Conference

26 - 28 September 2001, Atlanta, United States of America

Changing Ownership and Management of State Forest Plantations: Implications, Issues and Approaches

6 - 8 November 2002, Cape Town, South Africa

Charcoal-coated seedballs are re-planting Kenya’s lost forests.

Teddy Kinyanjui, one of Seedballs Kenya's co-founders, is on a mission to reverse Kenya's deforestation. The seedballs' charcoal coating protects the seeds inside and helps local trees repopulate deforested areas.

Chile's pine forests: a botanical dinosaur bound for extinction?

In Quinquen, an indigenous community in southern Chile, Ricardo Melinir shows off a forest of Chilean pine trees—the araucaria araucana, a "living fossil" seen as sacred by several local tribes.

Chocolate: Origins of delicacy pushed back in time

Chocolate has been a delicacy for much longer than previously thought. Botanical evidence shows the plant from which chocolate is made was first grown for food more than 5,000 years ago in the Amazon rainforest.

Chopping forests to plant durians like killing goose that lays golden eggs

Durian farmers are "shooting themselves in the foot" if they continue to clear the forest for durian plantations, conservation groups said.

Citizen science in Kenya’s Rift Valley

Participation is widely seen as a cornerstone of sustainable resource management, and it’s a pillar of Kenya’s 2010 constitution, too. In the remote highland forests and water catchments of the country’s Rift Valley region, the involvement of the community in undertaking science work has deliver ...

Climate Change and Biodiversity; Conservation and Adaptation

Climate change is one of the most important global environmental Issues impacting natural ecosystems and socioeconomic systems. For instance, climate change affects forest ecosystems primarily in three ways: firstly, forest ecosystems through land use change contribute about 20% of the global C0 ...

Climate Change’s Dangerous Effects on the Boreal Forest

Much of the United States has been experiencing periodic heat waves this summer, which has contributed to droughts, fires, and overall discomfort. But the heat wave has extended all the way to the boreal forest, a unique ecosystem in the northern hemisphere that is one of the largest carbon sink ...

Climate Explained: what would happen if we cut down the Amazon rainforest?

What would happen if we cut down the entire Amazon rainforest? Could it be replaced by an equal amount of reforestation elsewhere? Removing the entire Amazon rainforest would have myriad consequences, with the most obvious ones possibly not the worst.

Climate benefits of forest restoration revealed

Tropical forests are converted at an alarming rate through deforestation, but also have the potential to regrow naturally on abandoned lands. Studies published recently show that regrowing tropical forests recover surprisingly fast and identify the best types of trees for aiding in this action.

Climate change atlas offers a glimpse into forest futures

For 20 years, the USDA Forest Service's Climate Change Atlas has been giving foresters in the Eastern United States insight into how future habitat conditions may affect tree species, from dramatic change (a big increase of cedar elm, for example, and a big loss in balsam poplar) to the fairly n ...

Climate change: 'Future proofing' forests to protect orangutans

A study has identified key tree species that are resilient to climate change and support critically endangered apes. Planting them could help future proof rainforests, which are a key habitat for orangutans, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature - IUCN.

Climate impacts drive east-west divide in forest seed production

Younger, smaller trees that comprise much of North America's eastern forests have increased their seed production under climate change, but older, larger trees that dominate forests in much of the West have been less responsive, a new Duke University-led study finds.

Coal mining threatens Ethiopia’s ancient coffee forest

Sitting high in the hills of southwestern Ethiopia, the thick green forest of Yayu is a haven of biodiversity where Nuradin Aliyi, a third-generation wild-coffee farmer, has lived his whole life intertwined with nature.

Cocoa farming for forest conservation in Ghana

Cocoa cultivated in Ghana's forests is encroaching on natural ecosystems. Boosting the productivity of existing plantations could keep their expansion in check.

Collaborative Approach to Forest-Related Aichi Targets

Present and discuss on-going and proposed actions to achieve forest-related Aichi Targets, particularly Target 5, Target 7, Target 11 and Target 15.

Collaborative Partnership on Forests

6 September 2004, New York, United States of America

Collaborative Partnership on Forests Meeting

25 May 2003, Geneva, Switzerland

Colombian Amazon: casualty of peace

In just a few minutes, an enormous century-year-old tree is felled by an electric saw in the middle of a protected national park. The giant collapses, sending a shockwave through the Colombian Amazon.

Comments requested regarding the Global Forest Partnership

Reference: SCBD/STTM/TC/LJ/60479 (2007-133)
To: All CBD and SBSTTA Focal Points

In support to Decision VIII/19 4(a) of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on strengthening collaboration with members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, I would like to call your attention to an independent consultative process on a possible Global ...

Commercial fungi pickers threaten Epping Forest biodiversity

A woodland is being stripped of wild mushrooms by pickers selling them off to restaurants and markets, it is claimed. The City of London Corporation (CLC) said commercial foragers had been targeting London's Epping Forest.

Commission steps up EU action to protect and restore the world's forests

Today the European Commission adopted a comprehensive Communication setting out a new framework of actions to protect and restore the world's forests, which host 80% of biodiversity on land, support the livelihoods of around a quarter of the world's population, and are vital to our efforts to fi ...

Commitment to the Amazon: ARPA for Life – a Public-Private Partnership to Secure the Future of the World’s Largest Tropical Rainforest

2012 marks the 10th anniversary of the launch of Brazil’s Amazon Region Protected Area (ARPA) initiative. The event will highlight the award-winning track record of the ARPA programme for improved biodiversity conservation and protected area management, and the contribution to reduced carbon em ...

Committee on Forestry (COFO) - 16th Session

10 - 14 March 2003, Rome, Italy

Communiqué: Building bridges for Biodiversity: Governor of Ishikawa Prefecture pays official visit to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity.

Communiqué: Liaison Group on Bushmeat concludes in Buenos Aires with Recommendations to the World Forestry Congress.

Communiqué: South-South-Exchange Meeting on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Forest Biodiversity.

Communiqué: United Nations Forum on Forests and Convention on Biological Diversity Enter into Partnership.

Communiqué: Water Security Depends on Forests and Wetlands.

Concertation francophone à la dixième session du Forum des Nations Unies sur les forêts

unknown dates, Istanbul, Türkiye

Conference on Regenerating Mountain Forests - Prerequisite for Sustainable Management

12 - 16 September 2004, Bavaria, Germany

Conferencia Internacional de Bosques /International Conference on Forests

18 - 20 November 2003, Santa Marta, Colombia

Conservation of forests key to uninterrupted supply of oxygen, water: Aaranyak

On the occasion of its 32nd Foundation Day today, premier biodiversity conservation and research organisation of the region, Aaranyak to reiterated its commitment to work with renewed vigour towards its mitigating key potential threats, as it has flagged, to the ecology and environment in North ...

Consultation on the ITTO/CBD Collaborative Initiative for Tropical Forest Biodiversity

Reference: SCBD/STTM/JM/TC/JSt/76317 (2011-106)
To: CBD National Focal Points, cc: Indigenous and Local Community Organizations; Members of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests; other Relevant Organizations; SBSTTA Focal Points; POWPA Focal Points

The Secretariats of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) are pleased to inform their respective constituencies on the advances in the implementation of CBD COP Decision X/36 and International Tropical Timber Council (ITTC) Decisio ...

Costa Rica May Become a Pioneer in Reforestation of Fruit Trees

Surely you have ever heard or read, that he who perseveres achieves, and that perseverance is a fundamental key in all purposes. The aforementioned is applicable to everything you want to do, it is part of the day to day, like the air we breathe.

Costa Rica will Recieve $60 million for the Protection of Forests

Costa Rica will receive $ 60 million from the World Bank over the next five years, in recognition of the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and for the protection of forests. The World Bank revealed today during an event in Brussels that Costa Rica would be among the countries that will recei ...

Country diary: smells like evergreen spirit

I love the smell of conifer resin in the morning. Here, on a skin-tingling frosty day, with the first rays of sunshine skimming the treetops, it scented the shadowy depths of the forest.

Country-Led Initiative in support of UNFF on the Future of the International Agreement on Forests

25 - 28 January 2005, Guadalajara, Mexico

Critical temperature threshold spells shorter lives for tropical trees

Tropical trees have shorter life spans than trees in other parts of the world, living, for example, just over half as long as temperate trees. A new analysis suggests that, as the world warms up, tropical trees will live even shorter lives, spelling trouble for global biodiversity and carbon stocks.

Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Forest Management: The role of traditional knowledge

8 - 10 June 2006, Florence, Italy

Curso Taller Internacional FUNDENA - Planificación del uso de las tierras para fines agrícolas y forestales

14 - 19 February 2005, San Jose, Costa Rica