More than two billion hectares(nearly five billion acres) of degraded and deforested land awaits restoration worldwide.
This piece is co-written by Eriks Brolis, the conservation business lead on The Nature Conservancy’s Global Lands Team.
Chad has several regions: a desert zone in the north, an arid Sahelian belt in the centre and a more fertile Sudanian Savanna zone in the south.
Over the past decade, commitments and support for Forest Landscape Restoration have grown significantly.
13 July 2017 - Chad has pledged to restore 5 million hectares by 2030 as part of the Bonn Challenge at today’s Southern Afr
The government of Malawi launched its National Forest Landscape Restoration Assessment (NFLRA) report and strategy at the Southern Africa (SADC+) Bonn Challenge Ministerial Dialogue.
Ethiopia has 31 endemic species of mammals and is a global center of avian diversity. To date, more than 856 bird species have been recorded in Ethiopia, twenty of which are endemic to the country.
The Billion Tree Tsunami Afforestation Project in Pakistan’s northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province has surpassed its target by restoring and planting trees in 350,000 hectares of degraded forest landscapes.
It is well established that deforestation and forest degradation, as well as forest landscape restoration (FLR) activities, play a critical role in the global carbon cycle.