🌏 With UNCCD COP17 now over, the IUCN Forest and Grasslands Team is reflecting on our experience of two weeks of learning, exchange, and collaboration around dryland, rangeland, and grassland conservation and restoration. Here are some of our key reflections: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

🌎 REPORT LAUNCH: Grasslands and Savannas: Defining Degradation, Restoration, and Key Principles for Success 🌱 To read the full report online, visit the IUCN website: iucn.org/resources/gr...

Grasslands and Savannas: Defining Degradation, Restoration, and Key Principles for Success

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📖 Check out the new Grasslands and Savannas: Core Ecosystem Dynamics and Regional Profiles Report launched today at the UN Convention to Combat Desertification COP17 in Mongolia. 📔 To read the full report online, visit the IUCN website: iucn.org/resources/gr...

Grasslands and Savannas: Core Ecosystem Dynamics and Regional Profiles

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Join us at the upcoming event: FROM COMMITMENT TO CAPITAL: Financing Resilient Grasslands, Savannahs and Rangelands for People, Nature, and Climate. 📅 Date: August 24, 2026 🕰️ Time: 10:30 -12:00 📍 Location: UNCCD COP17, Blue Zone, MET-05 💡 Info: www.unccd.int/cop17/progra...

🦓Join us for a high-level event dedicated to elevating global attention to the protection, restoration, and sustainable management of grasslands and rangelands as key ecosystems. 📅 Date: August 25, 2026 🕰️ Time: 12:30-13:30 📍 Location: UNCCD COP17, IUCN Pavilion 💡 Info: tockify.com/iucnevents/d...

🏜️ The GEF-7 Dryland Sustainable Landscapes Impact Programme (DSL-IP) side event presents the consolidated outcomes of the Gaborone convening and translates them into entry points for UNCCD Parties working on LDN. 🗓️August 25, 2026 🕰️15:00 - 16:00 📍Blue Zone, MET-05 💡 www.unccd.int/cop17/progra...

🌿 Grasslands are one of our planet's most overlooked ecosystems. 🌾 Join us at COP17 Mongolia to explore these landscapes and the communities and leaders pioneering the management of these crucial ecosystems to ensure their future. 💡 www.unccd.int/cop17/progra... 💡 tockify.com/iucnevents/d...

🏔️ Join us on Monday, August 24th for a hybrid event at @‌COP17 Mongolia “LAND 2030: LINKING ACTION, NETWORK, AND DELIVERY.” 📅 Date: Monday, August 24, 2026 ⏳ Time: 16:00 - 17:30 📍 Location: Blue Zone, IUCN Pavilion 💡 Information: LAND 2030+: tockify.com/iucnevents/d...

🦙 This month saw the final webinar in the IUCN and the UN Decade Ecosystem Restoration Hub Series. This session highlighted restoration across the Americas and Caribbean. 🦜 To learn more about the webinar, read the full story: iucn.org/story/202608...

💡 Join us next week at COP17 Mongolia for an event centred on Land Restoration Governance and Finance at the National Level. ⌛ Time: August 18, 2026 🗓️ Date: 15:00 - 16:30 📍 Location: Blue Zone, Meeting Room 05 🪶 More info: www.unccd.int/cop17/progra...

🎥 Coming Soon: Horizonte Vivo 🐄🌾🦅 📅 Date: August 25, 2026 🕰️ Time: 12:30 -13:30 📍 Location: UNCCD COP17, IUCN Pavilion 💡 Info: iucn.org/events/large...

🌍 The IUCN Forest and Grasslands Team will be at UNCCD COP17. Join us for high-level events and discussions centred on understanding and finding solutions to combat land degradation. 📖 Get the full programme of IUCN events here: lnkd.in/gt_uWtFc 🏔️ Learn more about FGT here: linktr.ee/iucnfgt

🌍 REGISTER NOW for the One Health Beyond Health Webinar. 📅 Date: Wednesday, September 11, 2026. ⌛ Time: 10:00 – 11:00, Eastern Daylight Time (EDT) 📍 Location: engage.iucn.org/event/one-he...

🧭 CS4LDN works to improve land restoration finance by mapping funding opportunities. As part of this effort, global Business Development and Investment Planning workshops, worked to forge new partnerships, develop investment expertise, and strengthen collaboration. 👉 iucn.org/story/202607...

🐠 Last week marked the Europe focused webinar in the IUCN and the UN Decade Ecosystem Restoration Hub Series. 🐿️ To learn more about the webinar, read the full story: iucn.org/story/202607... To attend the final webinar in the series, visit IUCN engage: engage.iucn.org/event/iucn-a...

🦬 Join us for the final session of the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Hub webinar series. 🗓️ Date: August 4, 2026 🕰️ Time: 12:00 - 13:30 CEST 📍 Location: engage.iucn.org/event/iucn-a... 🌍 Visit the UN Decade Ecosystem Restoration Hub to explore existing initiatives: www.decadeonrestoration.org

The third webinar in the IUCN and the UN Decade Ecosystem Restoration Hub Series focused on restoration across West and Central Asia. Read the full story: 💠https://lnkd.in/gYWAiyXD Attend more webinars: 💠Europe and the Mediterranean: lnkd.in/eY_eZkqA 💠The Americas and Caribbean: lnkd.in/eeq2wPkV

🦉The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration Hub Webinar Series continues! 🦌This session brings together speakers from across Europe to present IUCN restoration initiatives and how they support the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. 📅 July 21, 2026 ⏰ 15:00 - 16:30 CET 📍 engage.iucn.org/event/iucn-a...

📣STORY📣CS4LDN Supports Civil Society to Navigate the Financing Landscape for Land Restoration Learn more 👉 iucn.org/story/202606... 👉 iucn.org/resources/gr...

🦁 The 2nd IUCN and the UN Decade Ecosystem Restoration Hub brought together speakers from across Africa to share remarkable restoration success stories. Read the full story: 🦓https://iucn.org/story/202607/iucn-and-un-decade-ecosystem-restoration-hub-success-stories-and-guidance-africa

➡️ Join us for the third IUCN and the UN Decade Ecosystem Restoration Hub regional webinar! 📅 Date: July 7, 2026 ⌛ Time: 15:00 - 16:30 AST 📍 Location: engage.iucn.org/event/iucn-a... 🌍 Visit the UN Decade Ecosystem Restoration Hub to explore existing initiatives:https://www.decadeonrestoration.org/

🐒 India has brought 21.76 million hectares of land under restoration! 🌲 Read the Full Story: iucn.org/news/202606/...

🪙 How can we ensure more equitable access to finance for land restoration? 📓 A new CS4LDN report explores the barriers driving this gap and outlines practical recommendations for both donors and civil society. Read the full report 👉 iucn.org/resources/gr...

🐼 The first webinar in the IUCN and the UN Decade Ecosystem Restoration Hub Series focused on restoration in Asia and Oceania, guiding Members on how to include restoration initiatives in the Hub. Learn more: 🐒 iucn.org/story/202606... 🫧 engage.iucn.org/topic/webina...

🎊 Join us for the second UN Decade Ecosystem Restoration Digital Hub Regional Webinar focusing on Africa and taking place Tuesday, June 23rd! 📅 Date: June 23, 2026 ⏰ Time: 15:00 - 16:30 EAT 📍 Location: engage.iucn.org/event/iucn-a... 🌍 Explore existing initiatives: www.decadeonrestoration.org

IUCN FGT is committed to conserving and restoring our global rangelands. This Drought and Desertification Day, we want to recognize the importance of these ecosystems to people and nature. Explore rangelands, grasslands & the fight against land degradation here: www.linkedin.com/posts/iucn_d...

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Rangelands cover more than half of the Earth’s land surface and support the lives of around two billion people worldwide. Despite their importance they are one of our most overlooked ecosystems and u...

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IUCN welcomed representatives from IPAM Amazonia for an insightful discussion on the interconnections between nature, forests, and climate change. The discussion explored the interlinkages between mining, deforestation, crop yields and forest cover in the face of climate change, and much more.

Access to finance remains one of the biggest barriers to scaling land restoration efforts. Watch the video for key insights and learn more in the full guide 👉 lnkd.in/d78ESNpM

This week, the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change of Mongolia, and IUCN delivered a joint briefing COP17 to the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), set to be hosted in Ulaanbaatar in August 2026. Learn more: iucn.org/news/202606/...

At the UNFCCC June Climate Meetings held this week in Bonn #SB64, IUCN participated in discussions on Forests, Grasslands and the AFOLU (Agriculture, Forestry, and Other Land-Use) sector as essential solutions for climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development.