Read about the experiences of one of the participants in our forestry field course in Lao PDR. The course took place early this year with the support of Metsätieteiden osasto Metsämiesten Säätiö and Erasmus+ with students from Finland and local Lao universities blogs.helsinki.fi/hilife-trainee…

Nature Positive Initiative launches to promote the integrity and implementation of the Global Goal #ForNature. ➡️ naturepositive.org

❗ Global food systems are broken! Responsible for a third of GHG emissions, #biodiversity loss, & land degradation, while leaving over 800 million people hungry. 🌱 #Agroecology serves both people & nature. It is the future of food systems. 🔗: cifor-icraf.org/agroecology-tp… #aeTPP

Announcement: Global team launches groundbreaking project to secure justice for #nature: Lawyers, conservationists & scientists begin five precedent-setting cases, as part of a #GreenWave of #biodiversity #litigation conservation-litigation.org/news/rydal 🧵1/4

VITRI is part of a global team to secure justice for nature represented by Prof. Edward Webb | Metsätieteiden osasto University of Helsinki HELSUS | part of #GreenWave of #biodiversity #litigation | helsinki.fi/en/researchgro…

🧵➡️conservation-litigation.org/news/collabora… Thrilled to see the success of the collaborative workshop held by the National Environmental Working Group of the Indonesian Supreme Court, #ICEL and #LancasterUniversity to explore legal remedies to environmental harm!

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Another update from the field as part of the Zambia project Agroforestry, Biodiversity and Climate (Z4ABC) where Nick Hogarth is one of the principal investigators | Metsätieteiden osasto University of Helsinki HELSUS | helsinki.fi/en/researchgro…

High-precision mapping of the last remnant of lowland lava flow forest on the island of Tutuila, American Samoa, leads to strong justification for investment in a land purchase. US Department of the Interior @_JPhelps UNDP Samoa Samoa News Samoa Observer NPSamericansamoa sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Producing more with less is needed also in the forestry sector 🌲🌳🍃 We need to diversify also our forest products, and collaboration between the private sector, government and other stakeholders is key 🤝 #ForestryDevelopment #seminar Siemenpuu World Bank Food and Agriculture Organization

The group discussions resulted in good observations & recommendations, which we will share with the Finnish government after the seminar 🙌🌳🌍Thank you all participants, speakers and organizers! #ForestsDevelopment MTK MFA Finland 🇫🇮 MMM Siemenpuu Luonnonvarakeskus Fingo

Fire is associated with forest degradation and economic land concessions, but not land conversion in the rapidly transforming Cambodian landscape doi.org/10.1088/1748-9… via IOP Environment

Tropical forest fragments may have critical conservation value. Decisions to invest in their conservation should leverage criteria-based frameworks. See our recent paper in Global Ecology and Conservation: doi.org/10.1016/j.gecc…

New research evaluates mangrove community forestry outcomes using synthetic control and field-based approaches: doi.org/10.1088/1748-9… via IOP Environment Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry socialforestry Mangrove Action Project

Animation of a complete tree census in tropical forest of American Samoa, using a total station. This was part of a survey to justify conservation investment by the usfs_r5 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Faculty of Agriculture and Forestry See our paper at: doi.org/10.1016/j.gecc…

A new paper detailing the complexities of compensating for protected area downgrading, downsizing, and degazettement: area may be compensated, but ecoregion and threatened species protection is not often so. See the paper at: doi.org/10.1111/cobi.1…

The greening of the Himalayas: Forest expansion dynamics in Nepal analyzed in a new paper: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.108…

Huge precedent-setting legal victory against wildlife trafficker for ConservationLitigation.org, of which VITRI is a member: conservation-litigation.org/news/press-rel…