Goals & Objectives The project aims to improve forest management of Kazakhstan in terms of forest accounting and data management contributing to protection and conservation including regulatory procedures five (5) years after the project. To conduct identification and mapping pilot inventory of the unaccounted forests
Forest crime implies a broad range of processes of “taking, trading, importing, exporting, processing, possessing, obtaining and consuming wild flora, including timber and other forest products, in contravention of national or international law” as defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Congratulations to all organizers, delegates, and participants on the success of the XV World Forestry Congress (WFC)! AFoCO organized a total of 7 events, including the Pre-Congress of the XV WFC and the AFoCO Ministerial Meeting, and engaged in 15 sessions and side events at
AFoCO seeks help from 10-year-old giant penguin Pengsoo and his friends to plant trees to help green Asia but ended up getting into some trouble… Pengsoo also joined the #REForest2022 (Rescue Earth’s Forests) challenge by uploading a photo on his SNS account! Join the #REForest2022
On 31 March 2022, a back-to-back Project Inception Meeting (PIM) and the 1st Project Steering Committee (PSC) Meeting for the project “Pilot project on inventory of unaccounted forests in Kostanay and North Kazakhstan regions and automation of information collection on forestry (AFoCO/028/2022)” was successfully held
Since the ratification of the AFoCO Agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2019, the first ever country-driven project was signed between the AFoCO Secretariat and the Republic of Kazakhstan on 7 March 2022. The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the project
AFoCO organized its first forum for corporate and private sector entities on 24th February 2022 in a hybrid fashion at Westin Chosun Hotel in Seoul. A total of 123 participants (60 joined in person and 63 joined virtually) attended the Forum to learn about the
1. Background Myanmar is rich in natural resources thanks to its various types of forests and diverse biological resources. About 42.19% of the country’s land area is still covered by forest resources, accounting for 28.5 million hectares (FAO, 2020). Myanmar possesses great variation in topography
Goals & Objectives Forests in the ASEAN region are being increasingly converted and degraded to accommodate the demands of increasing human populations. These coupled with other drivers of deforestation and degradation including forest fires occur cause massive damage to the environment. In fact, Forest Fire
Goals & Objectives The project aims to improve forest management of Kazakhstan in terms of forest accounting and data management contributing to protection and conservation including regulatory procedures five (5) years after the project. To conduct identification and mapping pilot inventory of the unaccounted forests
Forest crime implies a broad range of processes of “taking, trading, importing, exporting, processing, possessing, obtaining and consuming wild flora, including timber and other forest products, in contravention of national or international law” as defined by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).
Congratulations to all organizers, delegates, and participants on the success of the XV World Forestry Congress (WFC)! AFoCO organized a total of 7 events, including the Pre-Congress of the XV WFC and the AFoCO Ministerial Meeting, and engaged in 15 sessions and side events at
AFoCO seeks help from 10-year-old giant penguin Pengsoo and his friends to plant trees to help green Asia but ended up getting into some trouble… Pengsoo also joined the #REForest2022 (Rescue Earth’s Forests) challenge by uploading a photo on his SNS account! Join the #REForest2022
On 31 March 2022, a back-to-back Project Inception Meeting (PIM) and the 1st Project Steering Committee (PSC) Meeting for the project “Pilot project on inventory of unaccounted forests in Kostanay and North Kazakhstan regions and automation of information collection on forestry (AFoCO/028/2022)” was successfully held
Since the ratification of the AFoCO Agreement with the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2019, the first ever country-driven project was signed between the AFoCO Secretariat and the Republic of Kazakhstan on 7 March 2022. The signing of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the project
AFoCO organized its first forum for corporate and private sector entities on 24th February 2022 in a hybrid fashion at Westin Chosun Hotel in Seoul. A total of 123 participants (60 joined in person and 63 joined virtually) attended the Forum to learn about the
1. Background Myanmar is rich in natural resources thanks to its various types of forests and diverse biological resources. About 42.19% of the country’s land area is still covered by forest resources, accounting for 28.5 million hectares (FAO, 2020). Myanmar possesses great variation in topography
Goals & Objectives Forests in the ASEAN region are being increasingly converted and degraded to accommodate the demands of increasing human populations. These coupled with other drivers of deforestation and degradation including forest fires occur cause massive damage to the environment. In fact, Forest Fire
Asian Forest Cooperation Organization (AFoCO) is a treaty-based intergovernmental organization aiming to strengthen forest cooperation by transforming proven technologies and policies into concrete actions in the context of sustainable forest management to address the impacts of climate change.
We are headquartered in Seoul, the Republic of Korea, with a subsidiary body, the AFoCO Regional Education and Training Center (RETC), in Yangon region, Myanmar.
AFoCO Secretariat
12F SIMPAC Bldg., 52, Gukjegeumyung-ro,
Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul 07330,
Republic of Korea
T. +82-2-785-8971
F. +82-2-785-8970/8910
E. [email protected]
AFoCO Regional Education & Training Center (RETC)
Seed & Seedling Center (SSC) of Forest Department of Myanmar, Ye-Twin-Kone Village, Hmawbi Township, Yangon Region, Myanmar
T. +95-9972578592
E. [email protected]
