Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration
The Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) is a proactive global network that unites governments, organizations, academic/research institutes, communities and individuals under a common goal: to restore the world’s lost and degraded forests and their surrounding landscapes.
Specifically, the GPFLR responds directly to the Bonn Challenge to restore 150 million hectares of deforested and degraded land by 2020 and 350 million hectares by 2030.
The Global Partnership on Forest and Landscape Restoration (GPFLR) was launched in 2003 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Forestry Commission of Great Britain. Since then, nearly 35 governments and international and non-governmental organizations have joined. It aims to catalyze dynamic, voluntary action by sharing diverse experiences on restoration efforts that deliver tangible benefits to both local communities and nature through a landscape approach, while also fulfilling international commitments on forests.
The GPFLR achieves these ambitious goals by:
Catalyzing support
Members of the partnership work together to build support for forest and landscape restoration (FLR) at all levels. This includes raising awareness and securing the interest of decision-makers and opinion-shapers from the government, the private sector, civil society, the media and others. It also involves promoting increased support for FLR in international, regional and national policy frameworks.
Creating knowledge networks to accelerate restoration effort
As practitioners of FLR, we are learning all the time, through experience and from each other. The GPFLR Learning Network provides an important vehicle for that process. We aim to raise awareness of real-world FLR experiences and make available the tools and knowledge to support practitioners in the field. By connecting our partners and collaborators around the world in an FLR community of practice we are able to spread best practices, build cooperation and exchange new ideas and solutions, saving both time and resources.
Capacity development
Courses and workshops are essential to developing individual and collective capacity with respect to the conservation and restoration of forest landscapes. Our partners organize multiple and varied courses and learning opportunities related to FLR all over the world and online.
