Countries have already promised to restore 1 billion hectares – an area larger than China – as part of international climate, nature, and land goals. However, little is known about the progress or quality of this restoration. With the World Restoration Flagships, the UN is honouring the best examples of large-scale and long-term ecosystem restoration in any country or region, embodying the 10 Restoration Principles of the UN Decade.
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Ethiopia’s Great Rift-Valley Renaissance
Ethiopia |One of the Horn of Africa’s most degraded forest landscapes are being revived while creating thousands of forest-friendly jobs, most of them for women.
Blue Bay Restoration Initiative in China
China |As pollution, invasive species and disaster risk weigh on the coast, this initiative is reviving mangroves, seagrass beds, coral reefs and shorelines through coordinated, coast-wide management.
Forestami - Milan Urban Forest
Italy |Forestami is bringing nature back into one of Europe’s most densely populated and polluted metropolitan areas through tree planting, restoration and education.
Green Seattle Partnership
United States of America |As invasive plants and city pressures threaten urban forests, this partnership is uniting residents to restore green spaces and build a lasting culture of care.
Urban Nature Reborn in Colombia
Colombia |This initiative is turning a degraded coastal wetland into a natural and civic asset, that is creating new sources of income for local communities.
Sahel Integrated Resilience Initiative
Burkina Faso, Chad, Mali, Mauritania and Niger |Since 2018, this initiative has been turning degraded drylands into a lifeline for food security, rehabilitating soils and building resilience against drought, conflict and climate shocks for millions of people.
Restoring Brazil's Cerrado Savannah
Brazil |A collaborative effort to restore the Cerrado’s native vegetation while strengthening biodiversity, water security, climate resilience and local restoration economies.
KSA National Greening Program
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |From reviving rangelands to reintroducing the Arabian oryx, gazelle and ibex, this greening programme is turning back decades of desertification across some of the world's most water-scarce landscapes.
The Restoration Initiative
Cameroon, China, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Pakistan, Sao Tome and Principe, Tanzania |The Restoration Initiative is designed to translate global restoration goals to local contexts by boosting local restoration economies, such as nurseries, training smallholder farmers and pastoralists, removing invasive species and informing government policies.
Revitalizing Korea’s Forests From Fire
Republic of Korea |The Uljin forest fire will be remembered as one of the Republic of Korea’s worst ecological disasters, burning through over 20,000 hectares in about ten days.