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.

Forest landscape restoration isn’t just about planting trees: it’s about restoring ecological functions across whole landscapes and enhancing human well-being across deforested and degraded landscapes, so that people and nature can thrive together.

The overall goal of WWF’s Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) in Africa Programme is to enable governments in the nine countries to deliver their AFR100 commitments in a just way that promotes sustainable livelihoods for local people and biodiversity conservation, with landscape restoration under way on 13.5 million hectares of degraded land and deforested landscapes by 2027. The initiative is structured around three pillars:

We are all committed to working collaboratively and leveraging our diverse backgrounds to make this initiative a success.