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Photo of the AGEOS feedback meeting
event From 23 Feb. 2025 to 11 Mar. 2025

Libreville, Gabon

Gabon: towards a public infrastructure for sharing scientific data on forests and wetlands

As part of the One Forest Vision (OFVi) initiative, Pearl Winchester, Research Fellow at IRD - within the Data Terra unit, carried out a mission in Gabon from 23 February to 11 March 2025. Her objective: to assess the pre-feasibility of public infrastructures for sharing scientific data on forests and wetlands and measure their potential for appropriation by local stakeholders.
event From 03 Mar. 2025 to 05 Mar. 2025

Libreville, Gabon

OFVi scientific workshop: A strong commitment to biodiversity conservation in Gabon

From March 3 to 5, 2025, Libreville hosted a major scientific event as part of the One Forest Vision initiative (OFVi). The workshop brought together 80 participants for a plenary session at the Baie des Rois, and around 35 scientists who continued their discussions and work in technical workshops at the Centre Gabonais de l'Innovation (CGI).
Photo of Forum Carbone participants
event From 04 Feb. 2025 to 06 Feb. 2025

Fondation Del Duca, Paris

Towards a collaborative future for Africa's tropical forests: the success of a key scientific meeting

The workshop on ‘Reliable carbon quantification based on field observations in African tropical forests’ was held from 4 to 6 February 2025 at the Cino Del Duca Foundation in Paris. The event brought together some sixty leading experts from four continents to discuss the challenges and advances in carbon monitoring in African forests.
Photo of the delivery of equipment to ENEF
event

24 January 2025

Mbalmayo, Cameroon

Routing equipment for super-sites

OFVi has financed the shipment of high-tech equipment to several super-sites in Africa. This equipment will enhance the field capabilities of the scientific teams and improve the conditions for plant surveys and inventories.
Photo of the Pl@ntNet training group in Cameroon
event From 23 Jan. 2025 to 28 Jan. 2025

Yaoundé, Cameroon

Pl@ntNet formation in Cameroon

The first training session in the use of the Pl@ntNet application took place in Yaoundé (Cameroon) during the last week of January 2025, with financial support from the IRD via the CoForFunc project.
Photo of the team processing the camera trap videos
event From 26 Dec. 2024 to 02 Feb. 2025

Sebitoli, Uganda

Animal biodiversity monitoring’ mission in Sebitoli

The OFVi ‘animal biodiversity monitoring’ field mission took place from 26 December 2024 to 02 February 2025, on the Sebitoli super-site (Kibale National Park, Uganda) by the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN).
Photo from formation AGEOS 2024
event From 09 Dec. 2024 to 18 Dec. 2024

LSCE, Gyf-sur-Yvette

AGEOS formation 2024

From 9 to 18 December 2024, five engineers from the Agence Gabonaise d'Etudes et d'Observations Spatiales (AGEOS) had the opportunity to undergo immersive training in deep learning methods for analysing satellite data, at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) in Gif-sur-Yvette.
Pl@ntnet theoretical training
event From 31 Oct. 2024 to 08 Nov. 2024

Brazzaville, Congo

Pl@ntNet training continues in Congo

The second training course in the use of the Pl@ntNet application took place in Brazzaville (Republic of Congo) from 31 October to 8 November 2024.
Picture during the signature of the CP-Gabon
event

28 October 2024

Cali, Colombia

CP-Gabon at COP16

On 28 October 2024, at COP16, France and several international partners signed a $60 million Country Package for "Forests, Nature and Climate" (CP) with Gabon.
event From 23 Sept. 2024 to 29 Sept. 2024

Ipassa, Gabon

Ipassa Workshop - Plant biodiversity

The initiative organised a week-long workshop on plant biodiversity in Gabon.
event

17 September 2024

Bordeaux, France

OFVi 2024 seminar

The One Forest Vision initiative (OFVi) was pleased to organise its first scientific seminar in Bordeaux on 17 September.
event From 14 July 2024 to 18 July 2024

Kigali, Rwanda

ATBC 2024 participation

Young researchers involved in the initiative were able to present their work at the 60th annual conference of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) in Kigali, Rwanda.
event From 08 July 2024 to 09 July 2024

Brazzaville, Congo

CP-Congo workshop

A workshop to plan the scientific and capacity-building aspects of the Country Package for Forests, Nature and Climate of Congo (CP-Congo) was held in Brazzaville on 7 and 8 July 2024 at the offices of the Banque Sino-Congolaise pour l'Afrique.
Logo IUFRO
event From 23 June 2024 to 29 June 2024

Stockholm, Sweden

IUFRO 2024 participation

Thanks to the stand held by the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), OFVi was able to make its voice heard at the 26th International Congress of IUFRO, which took place in Stockholm from 23 to 29 June 2024.
event From 16 May 2024 to 04 July 2024

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AGEOS training webinar

Several researchers involved in the initiative organised a series of 4 webinars between May and July 2024 to train around twenty Gabonese engineers and students in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for remote sensing.
event From 03 June 2024 to 06 June 2024

Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Participation in PFBC 24

The One Forest Vision initiative (OFVi) was able to take part in large numbers in the 20th Meeting of the Parties to the Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP), which was held in Kinshasa from Monday 03 June to Wednesday 06 June 2024.
Photo of the start of a Lidar flight at Sebitoli
event

10 February 2024

Sebitoli, Ouganda

LIDAR mission in Sebitoli

The beginning of 2024 saw the launch of the first LIDAR flight field mission. This technology makes it possible to assess the above-ground biomass of trees and model the target forest in 3D. In turn, this enables the estimation of a forest's carbon stock.
Pl@ntnet training room in Congo-Brazaville
event

23 March 2024

Brazzaville, Congo

Pl@ntNet training in Congo

As part of the OFVi project, the first training course in the use of Pl@ntNet took place in Brazzaville (Republic of Congo) on 23 March, 6, 9 and 10 April 2024.
Photo of a drone leaving Mbalmayo
event

25 March 2024

Mbalmayo, Cameroon

LIDAR mission in Mbalmayo

In February 2024, a first OFVi field mission was carried out on the Mbalmayo regional super-site in Cameroon. This mission enabled three forest inventory plots to be set up and LIDAR data to be acquired over ~1,200 ha.
Photo of PANGEA participants
event

21 February 2024

Yaoundé, Cameroon

Participation in PANGEA

A PAN tropical investigation of bioGeochemistry and Ecological Adaptation (PANGEA) workshop was held on 21 and 22 February 2024 in Yaoundé.
Photo of a round table at the workshop in Gabon
event

22 November 2023

Libreville, Gabon

Gabon Workshop

A Gabon-France brainstorming workshop on implementation of the Country Package (CP) - Gabon was held in Libreville from 22 to 24 November 2023. The event was partly financed by a Solidarity Fund for Innovative Projects (FSPI-R) set up by the French Post Office to build on the momentum generated by the One Forest Summit.