Audios

Indigenous leaders: We can protect mother nature like nobody else

22 Jan 2018

They are the custodians of land; they are the guardians of forests and natural resources. Indigenous people all over the world have protected their landscapes since the earliest times. They believe their expertise is indispensable if the world wants to improve land use management and tackle current environmental challenges.

Landscapes what´s new? Meet the new Bonn Challenge Barometer of Progress

21 Jan 2018

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched the Bonn Challenge Barometer of Progress that details the development Brazil, Mexico, El Salvador, Rwanda, South Korea and the United States are making in bringing degraded and deforested landscapes into restoration. It is the only global progress tracking protocol focused on forest landscape restoration.

AFR100: Gateway to sustainable livelihoods in Africa

21 Jan 2018

Listen to solutions on how to improve livelihoods, natural resources management and land restoration in Africa geared up by the panel discussion about the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) at the Global Landscapes Forum event held in Bonn in December 2017. AFR100 is a country-led effort to bring 100 million hectares of deforested and […]

From Kenya to Brazil, environmental activism continues

20 Jan 2018

Maria Margarida Ribeiro Da Silva from Brazil won the 4th Wangari Maathai Forest Champion Award 2017 as an acknowledgement for her lifetime achievements in promoting community forest management and fighting for the rights of indigenous people in Brazil’s northern state of Pará.

GLF 2017 in Bonn: We are starting a new landscape chapter ahead of 2018

19 Jan 2018

Let us celebrate the outcome of the intense conversations we had, and embrace sustainable change in the use of our lands in the future because we have only one planet.