Building Forest-Water Monitoring Capacity for FLR in Ethiopia
WeForest, FAO and GIZ have just delivered a forest-water capacity building workshop in Mekelle, Ethiopia. The workshop ran from 18th-24th June with the aim of strengthening local knowledge and capacity in measuring and monitoring forest-water relationships and enabling the integration of forests and water in Forest Landscape Restoration strategies. We brought together 16 technical participants […]
WeForest Joins AFR100 as Technical Partner
The African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100) was started by the African Union to restore 100 million hectares of deforested and degraded landscapes across Africa by 2030 (an area the size of Egypt). WeForest was selected to join as a Technical Partner. So far, 25 African nations have signed-up, with a combined pledge to restore […]
WeForest Makes a PACT
In April 2018 WeForest joined the “Pact for the Restoration of the Atlantic Forest” or PACT.
Why plant trees in tropical regions?
(and not in temperate countries)
World Environment Day. Reconnect.
Hearing the birds and smelling the flowers… Unfortunately today’s forests are shrinking and being degraded: every day a huge area is cut clear.
Understanding Forest-Water Connections in India
As the world starts to take stock of more than just carbon in forests, WeForest builds on our forests and water training programme launched in 2017. This ongoing adaptive and interactive programme will enable local forest stakeholders to manage their forests for water and will advance the science surrounding forest-water interactions.
The tyranny of plastic
This EarthDay (April 22) our collective power is directed at plastic, all its merciless forms to be found literally everywhere, our land, our oceans, our bodies, our air and our trees…
Beautiful Earth, Beautiful Forest
From poisoning and injuring marine life to disrupting human hormones, from littering our beaches and landscapes to clogging our waste streams and landfills, the exponential growth of plastics is now threatening the survival of our planet.
One Million trees for Illustration Ltd!
In 2013 Illustration, one of the world’s leading illustration and animation agents, decided to do something about the cause and consequence of climate change; it pledged to donate 1% of its total income towards planting one million trees.
“C’est pas du vent” – RFI – WeForest on the Zambia project (12’05)
Listen to our 2mn interview (at 12’05 – in French) of WeForest CEO Marie-Noëlle Keijzer talking about our Zambia project on RFI radio. Want to know more about this initiative ? Check the video here.
