Forest JourneyBuilding knowledge and collaboration on forest landscape use and protection for a planet at the crossroads

Forests are high on the international stage and are being recognised as a key element in helping achieve the development agenda. But it doesn’t end there. How will governments, organisations, communities, indigenous groups, researchers, and everyone in between, put these goals into action?

It begins with knowledge and evidence, through discussion

and agreement, to building partnerships that bolster tangible action. And ensuring we have the right tools to make it happen.

Following the Forest Journey at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawai’i is your best opportunity to put these pieces together: spanning multiple workshops, knowledge cafés and pavilion events over the four days of the Forum, the Journey will bring

together participants from across the public and private sectors, civil society, NGOs, students, media, and more.

At its heart lies the Forest Pavilion – an event and networking zone open throughout Congress, where you can take part in interactive discussions, attend high-level presentations, check out new products, engage with multimedia installations, or relax and network with colleagues and friends.

Journey

Forest JourneyThe Forest Journey follows four themes:

Partnerships to protect & maintain healthy forests

Focusing on collaborative stakeholder engagement and dialogues that look to the public and private sector mechanisms needed for action locally, nationally and internationally.

Sustainable land use for a changing planet

Building knowledge and discussions on land degradation, ecosystems and landscapes – and finding shared solutions for the future.

Restoring forests & building communities

Highlighting innovative and exceptional stories of forest landscape restoration implementation and achievements from our partners and leaders around the world.

Science & evidence to enhance forest knowledge

Exploring big data and learning tools that support evidence-based forest activities and projects, featuring hands-on training and practical approaches.

How to take part

Review the session lists below and click any session ID for more details. After attending a session, come to the Forest Pavilion and let us know your thoughts in one of these ways:

1. Record a short video of your thoughts in our #ForestJourney video booth2. Visit our #ForestJourney photo wall, take a selfie, and tweet it to us @IUCN_forests3. Complete our #ForestJourney restoration puzzle, take a photo, and tweet it to us @IUCN_forests4. Add your favourite forest to our world map wall and show how your work is making a difference5. Share your thoughts via our online survey at the iPad kiosks in the Forest Pavilion

Follow us @IUCN_forests for daily tweets, quotes and photos from the events and watch our site for ongoing updates and post-event wrap-up: www.iucn.org/theme/forests/events/iucn-congress-2016

For more information, contact the Forest Pavilion team:Sandra Caya sandra.caya@iucn.orgCory Nash corbett.nash@iucn.org

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Time Session ID Title Type Organizer Location

Friday, 2 September 2016

11:00-13:00 12291 Multi-sectoral technical approaches to forest landscape restoration using the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology (ROAM)

Pavilion event IUCN Forest Pavilion

13:00-14:30 12292 Who benefits, how much? How to ad-equately measure human welfare im-pacts in forest conservation initiatives

Pavilion event CIFOR Forest Pavilion

14:30-15:30 12293 Measuring the conservation values of North American working forests - ra-tionale, metrics, process & partners of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)

Pavilion event Sustainable Forestry Initi-ative

Forest Pavilion

17:00-18:00 12295 Natural capital in practice: How can an ecosystem services approach build support for forest landscape restora-tion and lead to more strategic invest-ments?

Pavilion event Natural Capital Forest Pavilion

17:00-19:00 9770 Forest management certification - Eval-uating impacts

Knowledge café

Forest Steward-ship Council

Room 311-10

18:00-19:00 12296 Forest landscape restoration and the Restoration Opportunities Assessment Methodology in South America

Pavilion event IUCN SUR Forest Pavilion

Saturday, 3 September 2016

08:30-10:30 10271 Delivering multiple benefits from managed forests – the role of forest certification

Workshop PEFC Inter-national, SFI, Nepal Ministry of Forests

Room 317B

11:00-13:00 10400 Quantifying forest benefits for pro-poor conservation at scale

Knowledge café

CIFOR Room 311-11

Sunday, 4 September 2016

11:00-12:00 12308 Halting deforestation in the humid tropics: Implementing ‘No Deforest-ation’ commitments using the High Carbon Stock Approach

Pavilion event Greenpeace Forest Pavilion

18:00-19:00 12313 Implementing the World Bank Group Forest Action Plan: The governance response

Pavilion event World Bank Group

Forest Pavilion

Monday, 5 September 2016

08:30-10:30 9714 Confidence in conservation - Demon-strating impacts and creating market confidence through accessing ecosys-tem service markets

Workshop Forest Steward-ship Council

Room 301B

Science & evidence to enhance forest knowledge

Always refer to the official programme to confirm times and rooms in case of changes: https://portals.iucn.org/congress/sessions 3

Time Session ID Title Type Organizer Location

Friday, 2 September 2016

15:30-16:30 12294 Restoring resilient ecosystems and communities: Bonn Challenge imple-mentation in the United States

Pavilion event United States Forest Service

Forest Pavilion

19:30-21:30 12297 Pau Hana Book Launch: ‘Forest Land-scape Restoration in Brazil’

Pavilion event IUCN SUR Forest Pavilion

Saturday, 3 September 2016

08:30-10:30 15870 Bonn Challenge High-level Dialogue 1: Restoration leadership in action

Workshop IUCN & part-ners

Room 301B

11:00-12:00 12300 Forest landscape restoration for liveli-hoods, land-use planning, climate and conservation in West and Central Africa

Pavilion event IUCN PACO, COMIFAC

Forest Pavilion

13:00-14:30 12301 Restoration of landscapes with forests and trees: Highlights from China’s for-est restoration programs and the USDA Environmental Quality Improvement Program

Pavilion event CIFOR, IUCN China, China SFA

Forest Pavilion

14:30-15:30 12302 Forest landscape restoration in Mexico: The importance of building partner-ships to undertake and communicate restoration

Pavilion event Reforestamos Mexico

Forest Pavilion

14:30-15:30 12180 Water governance and forest land restoration at Xayá-Pixcayá basins to improve the water production to Gua-temala City

Pavilion event IUCN SUR Water Pavilion

15:30-16:30 12303 Experiences in forest landscape res-toration: From the forests of Central America to the world

Pavilion event Fundecor, CALMECAC, ANCON, FCG, IUCN ORMACC

Forest Pavilion

17:00-18:00 12304 Governance and forest landscape restoration

Pavilion event IUCN, US Forest Service, Parks Canada, IUFRO

Forest Pavilion

18:00-19:00 12305 The Restoration Initiative: Fostering innovation and integration in support of the Bonn Challenge

Pavilion event IUCN & part-ners

Forest Pavilion

19:30-21:30 12306 Bonn Challenge Pau Hana: Celebrating the 100 million hectares milestone

Pavilion event IUCN & part-ners

Forest Pavilion

Sunday, 4 September 2016

08:30-10:30 9662 Bonn Challenge High-level Dialogue 2: Restoration action for the future

Workshop IUCN & part-ners

Room 316A

11:00-13:00 9795 Défi de Bonn et les Objectifs d’Aïchi : Etat d’avancement des pays d’Afrique Centrale et Occidentale

Knowledge café

IUCN PACO Room 311-2

Restoring forests & building communities

Always refer to the official programme to confirm times and rooms in case of changes: https://portals.iucn.org/congress/sessions 4

Time Session ID Title Type Organizer Location

Saturday, 3 September 2016

12:00-13:00 12145 Taking net positive impact (NPI) to the agriculture and forestry frontier: land-scape stories from the Cerrado Biome in Brazil and more

Pavilion event IUCN Business & Biodiversity Pavilion

Sunday, 4 September 2016

08:30-10:30 12307 Nature protects us: Managing ecosys-tems for disaster risk reduction (DRR)

Pavilion event IUCN EMP, IUCN CEM

Forest Pavilion

12:00-13:00 12309 Indigenous peoples’ cultural connec-tions to forests: How indigenous values and health indicators are helping man-age invasive species

Pavilion event IUCN CEM Forest Pavilion

13:00-14:30 12310 The Land Use Dialogues: A multi-coun-try platform to gather knowledge and enable responsible business, improved governance and inclusive development in landscapes at risk

Pavilion event The Forests Dialogue

Forest Pavilion

14:30-16:30 12311 Homing in on the range: Reviving rangeland landscapes to achieve Land Degradation Neutrality

Pavilion event UNEP, FAO, GEF, World Bank, IUCN

Forest Pavilion

16:00-17:00 12363 Forests: Today and Tomorrow Pavilion event United States Forest Service

United States Pavilion

17:00-18:00 12312 Moving forward with the Red List of Ecosystems: Towards a better under-standing of the status of the world’s biodiversity

Pavilion event IUCN CEM, Provita

Forest Pavilion

17:00-19:00 9761 The “Dry Forest Hui O Hana”: Collab-orative partnerships to protect large-scale, multi-jurisdiction landscapes

Knowledge café

Waikoloa Dry Forest Initiative

Room 311-3

19:30-21:30 12314 Joint Pau Hana for SUSTAIN-Africa: Landscape partnerships for green growth

Joint Pavilion event

IUCN Water, Forest and Business & Biodiversity Pavilions

Monday, 5 September 2016

08:30-10:30 12315 Strengthening the role of IUCN in sav-ing the world’s primary forests: Imple-mentation of Resolution 060

Pavilion event IUCN Forest Pavilion

14:30-16:30 10239 The role of nature conservation in achieving the Sustainable Develop-ment Goals (SDGs)

Workshop International Society of Trop-ical Foresters, Yale Chapter

Room 301B

Sustainable land use for a changing planet

Always refer to the official programme to confirm times and rooms in case of changes: https://portals.iucn.org/congress/sessions 5

Time Session ID

Title Type Organizer Location

Friday, 2 September 2016

14:30-16:30 9700 Prise en compte des groupes vulnérables dans la REDD+: Leçons apprises du Cameroun

Workshop IUCN PACO Room 317A

Saturday, 3 September 2016

11:00-13:00 9810 What’s in your chocolate bar? Fair trade, con-servation and sustainable livelihoods: lessons and opportunities from Lachua community in Guatemala

Knowledge café

IUCN OR-MACC

Room 311-2

12:00-13:00 12318 Sustaining community forest dependence in Eastern Europe and Russia: Case study show-case

Pavilion event University of Michigan

Forest Pavilion

Sunday, 4 September 2016

13:30-14:30 12359 The State of Forestry in the United States Pavilion event United States Forest Service

United States Pavilion

17:00-19:00 10263 Zero Deforestation Supply Chains: Opportuni-ties, Challenges, and Lessons Learned

Workshop The Forests Dialogue, Na-tional Wildlife Federation

Room 315

Monday, 5 September 2016

11:00-13:00 12317 Forest and Farm Facility: Local voices from forests for global change

Pavilion event Forest and Farm Facility

Forest Pavilion

13:00-14:30 12319 Securing the future: Building partnerships for managing risk and resilience of locally con-trolled forest business

Pavilion event IIED Forest Pavilion

14:30-15:30 12320 Harnessing local governance structures for collaborative natural resource management and sustainable livelihoods: A case of Commu-nity Resource Management Areas (CREMAs)

Pavilion event IUCN Ghana Forest Pavilion

14:30-16:30 12163 A Partnership for Real Change: Two “land-scape approaches” from APRIL Group and the Zoological Society of London in Indonesia

Pavilion event APRIL Group Business & Biodiversity Pavilion

15:30-16:30 12321 The Body Shop’s Bio-Bridges: Regenerating forests to help endangered animals find love

Pavilion event The Body Shop

Forest Pavilion

17:00-18:00 12322 Restoring Pacific Islands forests for a new future

Pavilion event IUCN Oceania Forest Pavilion

18:00-19:00 12323 From ‘No Deforestation’ supply chains to res-toration: Multi-actor collaboration to connect the puzzle pieces of conservation, economic development, and sustainable livelihoods across the landscape

Pavilion event Asia Pulp & Paper Group

Forest Pavilion

19:30-21:30 12324 “Kelola Sendang”: Celebrating a new para-digm for sustainable landscape management in South Sumatra, Indonesia

Pavilion event Zoological Society of London

Forest Pavilion

Partnerships to protect & maintain healthy forests

Always refer to the official programme to confirm times and rooms in case of changes: https://portals.iucn.org/congress/sessions 6