Films have the power to inspire. The Forest Film Festival will transport audiences to some of the world’s most stunning tropical forests, featuring stories based on research by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF), highlighting the crucial role that these biodiverse ecosystems play in providing people and the planet with vital services from nutritious food to protection from climate change. The…

Agriculture has been around for 1000s of years on the steppe highlands of Spain. A 1.000.000 hectare area that is on the verge of desertification. But through regenerative agriculture and by revitalizing community spirit, it is shown how climate threats can be reversed. We invite you to the online premiere of the documentary ‘Head, Heart, Hands’, followed by a Q&A session with Alfonso Chico de Guzman, local regenerative farmer and cast member…

By scaling up research and development, technological innovation, investing in natural infrastructure and implementing responsible sourcing policies, companies play an integral part in preserving and restoring vital ecosystems, promoting the sustainable use of land, water and forests, while retaining consumer confidence in their product offerings. At Novartis, we aim to drive sustainability through our own operations, as well as those of our…

The Woodland Trust is the UK’s leading woodland conservation charity. We want to see a UK rich in native woods and trees, for people and wildlife. The Trust aims to engage and inspire people about woods and trees to help us meet our vision of creating, restoring and protecting woodland. Working as part of a UK wide team the Land & Property Manager will manage all land and property acquisition, disposal, legal, tenancy and agricultural aspects of…

Entrepreneurs throughout South Asia are looking toward the land, which has suffered from decades of degradation. Their mission is to heal this damage and build strong rural economies. The opportunity is big: nearly 140 million hectares of land in India alone could benefit from restoration. That is around 42% of its entire area, much of it managed by rural small landholders and tribal communities. Through the past six months of training and…

Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust is restoring nature across these beautiful counties and empowering people to connect with their local wildlife. As they work to manage habitats to tackle the nature and climate crises locally, they provide vital breathing spaces in a crowded world, their expert team work with more than 1,700 volunteers to look after 85 nature reserves and four education centres, run hundreds of amazing…

Fern is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) created in 1995. Our mission is to achieve greater environmental and social justice, focusing on forests and forest peoples’ rights in European policies and practices. We do this by co-ordinating NGO networks and working with partners to achieve change. We believe that to be effective it is essential to understand and address the social dimension of environmental conflicts; that strong coalitions are…

Nature offers many solutions to reduce the impacts of disasters and climate change, such as protecting forests on steep slopes, maintaining sand dunes along coastline and wetlands to buffer excess rainwater. Nature-based Solutions for increasing disaster and climate resilience are relevant to everybody and each of us can take some actions – small or large in promoting them. With this in mind, the introductory module is designed to be accessible…

In Eastern Europe and Central Asia, IUCN works closely with partner organisations and experts on promoting and implementing Nature-based Solutions at various levels. IUCN defines Nature-based Solutions as “actions to protect, sustainably manage, and restore natural and modified ecosystems that address societal challenges effectively and adaptively, simultaneously providing human well-being and biodiversity benefits.” The primary task of the…

The Japan Fund for Global Environment (JFGE) is seeking applications for its grant program to support Non Governmental Organization (NGO)/Non Profit Organization (NPO) engaged in environmental activities. The JFGE system provides comprehensive support through grants and other aid to projects by non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in global environmental conservation, both in Japan and overseas, through a fund created by pooling the…

The accredited international postgraduate program Agricultural Sciences and Resource Management in the Tropics and Subtropics (ARTS) at the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Bonn cordially invites you to join the ARTS Seminar on the Sustainable Development Goal 15: Combatting Desertification. On February 11th Dr. Barron Joseph Orr will give a presentation on SDG15: "Combatting Desertification". Dr. Barron Joseph Orr is the Lead…

The 8-week course is designed in 3 phases that move the participants from ideation towards the successful implementation of a new sustainable business model for landscape restoration with 4 returns: return of natural capital, return of social capital, return of inspiration and return of financial capital. Building on our ENABLE’s first MOOC "A Business Approach to Sustainable Landscape Restoration", this second MOOC focuses on the potential for a…

Integrated landscape management and large-scale landscape restoration should be in every company’s business strategy because in order to reach the Sustainable Development Goal on Land Degradation Neutrality (SDG Number 15.3) scaling up and acceleration of business-driven landscape restoration is urgently needed. This requires the acknowledgement of business’ interdependency with healthy landscapes and understand the value of ecosystem resources…