Media Advisories

Afro roots artist Rocky Dawuni Designated as Regional UN Goodwill Ambassador

31 Aug 2018

31 August 2018 – Rocky Dawuni, a Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter was today designated as the Regional UN Goodwill Ambassador at an evening of celebrations at the conclusion of the Global Landscapes Forum (GLF) African Landscape Restoration event at UN Environment headquarters, Nairobi, Kenya.

Restoring degraded land highlights opportunities for sustainable development in Africa

30 Aug 2018

Almost 1,000 participants joined the Global Landscape Forum’s GLF Nairobi 2018 at United Nations Office in Nairobi to hear speakers from across Africa discuss their experiences and successes restoring forests, farms and coastlines. A global audience participated online and the event was a top-trending social media site in Kenya.

Global experts meet in Nairobi to advance landscape restoration in Africa

29 Aug 2018

Finding solutions to meet the challenge of landscape restoration in Africa, where almost 50 million hectares of land is degraded each year, is a complex challenge requiring an innovative, coordinated, international response, says a top forestry expert who will speak at an upcoming conference in Nairobi.