Videos
Lina Pohl addresses UN on the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration
4 Mar 2019
Lina Pohl, head of El Salvador’s Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources (MARN) at the time, addresses the United Nations before the General Assembly adopted the proposed U.N. Decade on Ecosystem Restoration 2021-2030. El Salvador was a driving force behind its implementation. Read the Global Landscapes Forum media advisory here.
Deforestation-free supply chains: How you can contribute to make your company more sustainable
2 Feb 2019
Forests are essential for the survival of not only plants and animals, but they are also the basis of life for more than 1.6 billion people. To satisfy increasing consumption, people are continuously cutting down trees. We use the areas to cultivate agricultural raw materials – like soya, palm oil, rubber, cocoa or coffee. Many […]
“Voices of the Landscapes” Plenary
17 Jan 2019
Over the course of recent decades, communities across different cultural, ecological and political contexts have put into action innumerable restoration and sustainable management efforts and techniques, proving that local communities and indigenous peoples are crucial to improving the health of landscapes across the globe. Initiatives led by or involving local and indigenous groups have showcased […]
Eva Rood and Simon Moolenaar – The joys of developing transdisciplinary landscape education
27 Dec 2018
Various solutions to land restoration exist already. What is needed is upscaling through education, partnerships and sustainable business models to move from pledges to implementation to tackle the grand challenge of land restoration globally. The private sector has financial resources for scaling up land restoration. What is vital is that business professionals are educated about […]
Alexander Watson – To spread restoration, the power of the story
27 Dec 2018
The explorer.land is an interactive web-based project presentation and communication platform that supports the sharing of landscape restoration experiences. Alexander will make the case based on a real project, highlighting how visualization and storytelling can help projects create attention, engagement and collaboration with a broad group of stakeholders like governments, funding organizations, NGOs and the […]