Produced in response to a call from the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, this report aims to help users guide actions towards a more sustainable wild meat sector. Wild meat is an essential source of protein and income for millions of forest-living communities in the tropics and subtropics.

What are the top ten questions in the science of blue carbon? Little is known about the organic carbon that mangroves, tidal marshes, seagrass, seaweed and other coastal and marine ecosystems capture and store. So this overview by experts in the field offers a comprehensive roadmap for future research.

This book discusses the conditions that influence how the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are implemented and prioritized, and provides a systematic, multidisciplinary global assessment of interlinkages among the SDGs and their targets, increasing understanding of potential synergies and unavoidable trade-offs between goals.

The term ‘intact wilderness’ conjures images of pristine forests or wetlands, rich in wildlife. How much of this land remains? That depends on how you define it. The authors argue for the need to define and quantify the world’s remaining wilderness – because conservationists can achieve more when they work together.

Assessing the impact of efforts to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) on forests requires data, but existing datasets and tools are not always consistent, complementary, or suitable for local REDD+ performance assessments. This article offers recommendations based on research in five local REDD+ initiatives across the tropics.

Fish are a key source of protein and micronutrients, and are essential to the diets of some Nigerians. But this research shows that without forests, there are fewer fish. The authors point out that clearing forests for agriculture to produce more food might have the unintended consequence of reducing fish consumption.

On 1 January 2019, the world’s leading organizations on forestry and agroforestry, the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF) merged in order to leverage their combined 65 years of research and experience. Directors General Robert Nasi and Tony Simons recently sat down to talk about why the two organizations were merging, how to tackle food security and sustainable landscapes, and the future.

Elephants have always played a role in the history and culture of Sumatra, reaching as far back as the famed Kingdom of Srivijaya. Today, due to long-running human-animal conflict, the elephant population has diminished, and the remaining wild herds are hemmed in by plantations and residential areas. But recent conservation and restoration efforts in South Sumatra are helping these gentle giants – and the surrounding communities.

This work is a part of Participatory Action Research to Community-Based Fire Prevention and Peatland Restoration, an action research project funded by Temasek Foundation International and Singapore Cooperation Enterprise. CIFOR works together with local communities and partners on activities to prevent fire, restore peatland, and create sustainable livelihoods. We aim to influence social transformation and long-term behavioral change.

It must be recognized that women also use and need forests. Indeed, while women’s work in the forest and in the home often remains invisible in mainstream forestry, it is absolutely critical to sustaining forests as well as the communities who live in and around them.

In Nepal, an ambitious government program to hand tenure and forest management rights to local communities has not only had a positive outcome for conservation, it has also generated a sustainable source of income for forest communities. Ongoing research by CIFOR and ForestAction Nepal is looking into what kinds of benefits and challenges these forest-based enterprises face, and what it means for both livelihoods and landscapes.

Une première en Afrique subsaharienne : ouverture d’un laboratoire de biologie du bois en République démocratique du Congo. Wood biology laboratory, first of its kind in Sub-Saharan Africa, opens in Democratic Republic of the Congo.