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The JRC-managed observatory on deforestation and forest degradation will help protect and restore world’s forests and ensure that Europeans consume deforestation-free products. The observatory is structured around three...

Forests harbour a large proportion of the Earth’s terrestrial biodiversity, which continues to be lost at an alarming rate. Deforestation is the single most important driver of forest biodiversity...

Forests host most of the world's terrestrial biodiversity and are a major carbon sink. Yet, forests across the globe continue to be degraded and lost resulting in significant...

This Policy Brief is written by experts of the SCAR Strategic Working Groups (SWGs) ARCH and FOREST, and based on inputs from a virtual expert workshop jointly organised by the two SWGs...

The Living Planet Report, WWF’s flagship publication released every two years, is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. The Living Planet Report...

CBD Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group Report on Biodiversity and Climate Change: Interlinkages between biological diversity and climate change and advice on the integration of biodiversity considerations...

Read this FAO flagship publication on the state of world’s forests and the progress towards protecting forests biodiversity.

See the world’s forests in a new light: Take a look at our forests from two different vantage points. Along the way, you’ll get some fascinating insights...

Accurate characterization of tropical moist forest changes is needed to support conservation policies and to quantify their contribution to global carbon fluxes more effectively. We document...

This report by UNESCO, World Resources Institute (WRI) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) provides the first global scientific assessment of greenhouse gas emissions and sequestration...