Our mission
The Forest Landscape Restoration in Africa Programme is an ambitious multi-country WWF initiative that aims to kickstart the restoration of 13.5 million hectares of degraded and deforested landscapes across Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe by 2027.
The programme contributes to the goals of the African Forest Landscape Restoration Initiative (AFR100), which aims to accelerate restoration to enhance food security, increase climate change resilience and mitigation, and combat rural poverty.
At WWF, we coordinate with a wide range of partners – from national governments and private sector companies to Indigenous peoples and local communities – and coordinate closely with the AFR100 Secretariat. While we’re actively involved in landscape restoration work on the ground, forest landscape restoration isn’t just about individual conservation projects: it’s about putting in place the conditions – from government policies to financial mechanisms, business models to community capacity – that will enable forest landscape restoration on a scale never seen before.
Classification
- Farmlands
- Forests
- Freshwaters
- Grasslands, shrublands and savannahs
- Oceans and coasts
- Increases Health & Wellbeing
- Mitigates Climate Change
- Protects Freshwaters
- Reduces Disaster Risks
- Safeguards Biodiversity
- Supports Livelihoods
