Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration

The Global Partnership is a network of governments, organisations, communities and individuals who recognise the importance of forest landscape restoration and want to be part of a coordinated global effort. The partners will learn from one another's experiences and identify, undertake and support forest landscape restoration activities. The Forest Restoration Information Service (FRIS) plays a critical role as an information resource and in promoting information sharing among partners and other restoration practitioners. The partnership will serve as a model of how the international forest community can move constructively from dialogue to action by linking policy and practice.

The partnership does not seek to establish a parallel policy process or duplicate the efforts of others, but rather to weave a thread through existing activities, projects, processes and institutions in order to encourage and reinforce the positive roles and contributions of each of them to meeting human needs and maintaining ecological integrity through forest landscape restoration.

This website is currently being revised, so please check back for updates soon!
What will the Partnership achieve?
Brochure
Demonstration portfolio
What does Forest Landscape Restoration mean?
What does Forest Landscape Restoration look like?
Partners

New Updates:

Upcoming Events:

  • 2006 ITTO/ IUCN National FLR Workshops – National workshops will be held in the following countries: Mexico, March 6-10 (Consuelo); Guyana, March 13-17 (Consuelo); Guatemala, March 20-24 (Consuelo); Cameroon, March 20-24 (to be confirmed) (James); Myanmar, April 10-14 (to be confirmed) (James); India, August 22-25 (Sandeep); Philippines, dates not yet set (Sandeep); Côte d’Ivoire, dates not yet set (James). Participants are proposed by host countries but if you would like more information, please contact relevant facilitator: James Gasana (jgasana@intercooperation.ch), Sandeep Sengupta (sandeep.sengupta@iucn.org), Consuelo Espinosa (consuelo.espinosa@sur.iucn.org).
  • March 29 – April 1, 2006 - FAO Regional Forestry Commission for Africa, Maputo, Mozambique. For more information, contact: Pape.kone@fao.org.
  • April 17 – 21, 2006 – FAO Regional Forestry Commission for the Asia-Pacific, Dehra Dun, India. For more information, contact: Patrick.durst@fao.org.
  • May 23 – 26, 2006 – FAO Regional Forestry Commission for Europe, Zvolen, Slovakia. For more information, contact: Christopher.prins@fao.org.
  • May 25-26, 2006 - Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) Meeting in Colorado Springs, USA. It is a full partners meeting with a field trip to the South Platte Watershed organized by the USDA Forest Service.
    To accomodate limited space in the meeting, we regret that participation is by invitation only.
    C    ontact: Carole Saint-Laurent, GPFLR Coordinator at CarSaintL@bellnet.ca.
  • June 5 – 9, 2006 – FAO Regional Forestry Commission for the Near East, Larnaca, Cyprus. For more information, contact: Hasson.abdelnour@fao.org.
  • June 26 – 30, 2006 – FAO Regional Forestry Commission for Latin American Continent, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Contact: Carlos.carneiro@fao.org.
  • June 24-28, 2006 - Society for Conservation Biology 20th Annual Meeting: Conservation Without Borders in San José, California, USA. See the website: http://conbio.org/2006/Index.cfm.
  • September 26-29, 2006 – IUFRO International Conference: Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes, Consequences of Human Management at the University of Bari, Italy. Contact: Prof Giovanni Sanesi, Program in Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Bari, Italy. Details:www.greenlab.uniba.it/events/iufro2006/.
  • October 23 – 25, 2006 – FAO Regional Forestry Commission for North America, British Columbia, Canada. Contact: Douglas.kneeland@fao.org.

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Related FLR Documents:


Related Forest Landscape Restoration links:

Partner Links

Other Links:

  • ACICAFOC is a non-profit, social community-based organization from Central America, which groups associations, cooperative societies, federations and grass roots organizations lead by small and medium agro forestry producers, indigenous peoples and farmer peasants. These groups work for the access, use and management of the natural resources, seeking food security and economic sustainability for their communities in harmony with the environment.
  • European Tropical Forest Research Network (ETFRN) - is a forum for communication between European organisations, researchers, EU institutions and others concerned with (sub-) tropical forest research. (Link: http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn/topics/rehabilitation/index.html)
  • FECOFUN is a national federation of forest users which advocates for community forestry user group rights, locally, nationally and regionally - Nepal.
  • FONDEBOSQUE es una institución de derecho privado, sin fines de lucro, de interés público y social. Nuestro propósito principal es
    promover el desarrollo forestal sostenible en el Perú.
  • Fundación Vida Silvestre Argentina (FVSA) is a non-profit and independent private institution, with a mission of promoting the
    preservation of the bio-diversity, the sustainable development and the change of consumption patterns that predate the natural resources.
  • Guyra Paraguay es un referente en diversidad biológica en Paraguay, enfocado en las aves y sus ambientes, y agente activo en la
    toma de conciencia de la sociedad para su participación en la conservación de la naturaleza.
  • Keren Kayemeth Leisrael (KKL) of Israel (Link: http://www.kkl.org.il/kkl/kklmain_brown_eng.aspx )
  • Livelihoods and Forestry Programme, Nepal – is a ten year joint initiative started in 2001 between the Ministry of Forest and Soil Conservation, Nepal and the UK Department for International Development (DFID). It advocates forestry as a vehicle to improve the livelihoods of rural poor and address broader issues such as health and education. (Link: http://www.lfp.org.np/)
  • Los Algarrobos - Asociacion civil para desalloro sustentable (ACLA) - Argentina.
  • M. S. Swaminathan Research Foundation (MSSRF) was registered in 1988 as a non-profit Trust. The basic mandate of MSSRF is to impart a pro-nature, pro-poor and pro-women orientation to a job-led economic growth strategy in rural areas through harnessing science and technology for environmentally sustainable and socially equitable development.
  • National Forest Program - Ministry of Environment - Brazil /Programa Nacional de Florestas - Ministério do Meio Ambiente – Brazil.
  • Potomac Conservancy conducts a comprehensive land protection program and develops and implements a variety of land and water restoration projects.


For Further Information Contact:

Carole Saint-Laurent
Coordinator, Global Partnership on Forest Landscape Restoration
Senior Forest Policy Advisor, IUCN
70, Mayfield Avenue
Toronto, ON
M6S 1K6 Canada
Tel: ++ 1 416 763 3437
Email: CarSaintL@bellnet.ca