One Forest Vision initiative

Scientific cooperation and capacity building to protect tropical forests and wetlands

This initiative aims to provide scientific support to the countries of the tropical basins in efforts to preserve the environmental integrity and irretrievable biodiversity of tropical forests and wetlands as well as monitoring carbon reservoirs in forest basins. The One Forest Vision initiative (OFVi) will enable transparent monitoring of forest degradation, carbon stocks and tropical biodiversity. The initiative was pioneered by 6 major French research bodies (CEA, CIRAD, CNRS, INRAE, IRD, MNHN) and is being developed in partnership with research institutions in the partner countries. The initiative is already receiving French government funding for the Congo Basin.

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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.

01 April 2024

France

Two Postdoc offers

We are hiring 2 motivated young research scientists at LSCE in Paris and at INRAE in Bordeaux to work on African forests with satellites, ground inventories, and artificial intelligence models.
Photo of a drone leaving Mbalmayo

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

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.