UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Declared

Restoration of sloping agriculture land in Rwanda. Photo: Michael Kleine, IUFRO.

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, declared on March 1st by the UN General Assembly, aims to massively scale up the restoration of degraded and destroyed ecosystems as a proven measure to fight the climate crisis and enhance food security, water supply and biodiversity.

The Decade, a global call to action, will draw together political support, scientific research and financial muscle to massively scale up restoration from successful pilot initiatives to areas of millions of hectares.

As an active member of the Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration, we would like to draw your attention to this joint UN Environment & FAO press release:
http://www.forestlandscaperestoration.org/un-decade-ecosystem-restoration-declared

Forest and landscape restoration (FLR) has been a key activity of IUFRO-SPDC's thematic networking activities for several years now. Learn more about our FLR projects, publications and capacity building workshops:
https://www.iufro.org/science/special/spdc/netw/flr/