Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

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CIFOR publishes over 400 publications every year on forests and climate change, landscape restoration, rights, forest policy, agroforestry and much more in multiple languages.

FEATURE

Forests on Fire: Special Report

As fires have burned in the Amazon, Indonesia and parts of Africa over the past weeks, calls for action to protect forests have been heard from around the world. The environmental crisis has caught the attention of world leaders, public figures and activists alike. Fires have raged at an alarming rate in many different ecosystems, including Indonesia’s peatlands, the dry lands and forests of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, and in the boreal forests of Russia.

PUBLICATION

Public policy for strengthening and scaling up community-based fire prevention initiatives of private corporations to benefit the environment and livelihoods

NEWS

OPINION: Unfortunately, the Amazon isn’t the only forest fire story

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Upcoming Events

GLF New York City 2019

GLF New York 2019: The Decade on Ecosystem Restoration: Help define the most important Decade of the century. A global consultation in the runup to the official launch of The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration on World Environment Day June 5th 2021. The objective of this critical first meeting is to raise awareness, define the land and seascapes the world needs to restore to a sustainable state, and launch a global movement that will restore up to 2 billion hectares of degraded ecosystems and achieve the UN SDGs.

28 Sep 2019