The FLARE Flyer
Volume 2, Issue 2
June 2025
Annual Meeting Registration – Lima, Peru – October 23-27, 2025
The 2025 Annual Meeting registration portal is now open! Register today by clicking the button below. This year, FLARE has made some updates to the registration portal to enhance the user experience. We are excited to introduce an exclusive site specifically for FLARE members. While it is still in the beta version, this new platform will allow us to collect and update your information efficiently, reducing the need to ask you multiple questions for each event. Becoming an official FLARE member is free and will give you access to networking tools and events, research and job opportunities within the network, resources for engagement, and research tools.
Register for the Annual Meeting
You can register for this year’s Annual Meeting and simultaneously become a FLARE member if you wish; however, applying for membership is not a requirement for registration.
FLARE Policy Brief Series
FLARE’s Latest Policy Brief is Live!
How can community forest governance best be supported?
Our second policy brief suggests 3 key actions based on recent FLARE-supported research:
1. Local and national governments should grant legal recognition to local forest management authorities.
2. Public and private donors should invest in national and subnational analyses to better understand the local context
3. Legislators, program designers, and implementers should adopt a locally responsive approach to policy and program development.
Access the full policy brief here.
Stay tuned for a video summarizing this work!
Network News
Mari Luz Canaquiri wins the Goldman Environmental Prize
Congratulations to Mariluz Canaquiri Murayari, whose advocacy efforts on behalf of her people and the Marañón River have been recognized with the prestigious Goldman Environmental Prize. Her visionary leadership secured historic legal recognition of the river’s rights, empowering Indigenous Peoples and safeguarding this vital ecosystem. Mari Luz participated in the 2024 FLARE Annual Meeting, where the story of her people and work to safeguard the Marañón River was featured in a session centered on the film “Karuara: People of the River.”
Mari Luz Canaquiri (front center) at the opening plenary Q&A session during day one of the 2024 FLARE Annual Meeting.
Working Group Updates
Forest Livelihoods in a Changing Climate
The Forest Livelihoods in a Changing Climate Working Group is advancing collaborative research on climate change, forest governance, and adaptation strategies for forest-dependent communities. They will hold a session titled “Beyond Resilience: Moving towards Green Wellbeing in Forests under a Changing Climate” at the 11th FLARE Annual Meeting. If you are interested in joining the working group, fill out this form or reach out to karen.bailey@colorado.edu.
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Forests Sustaining Agriculture
The Forests Sustaining Agriculture Working Group’s recent special issue in Landscape Ecology features five new papers on agrobiodiversity practices. Additionally, Yang et al. (2024) published a powerful preprint review emphasizing the critical role of forests in global agriculture.
The group has also rolled out two dynamic videos to amplify their research:
BC Food Hub – Agrobiodiversity
University of British Columbia Forestry Production – Wild foods
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Fires, Forests and People
Fires, Forests and People (FFP) Working Group’s Chairperson, Rachel Carmenta and her co-authors recently published a paper, “Unveiling Pervasive Assumptions: moving beyond the poverty-biodiversity loss association in conservation,” which challenges a foundational flaw in mainstream conservation. It examines how conservation interventions continue to disproportionately associate the rural poor with biodiversity loss, while overlooking the ecological impacts caused by the wealthy located in forest-distant places.
This paper introduces the concept of “Connected Conservation,” a new approach that centers on justice, supports local and Indigenous communities, and addresses the root causes of biodiversity loss, highlighting the need for a paradigm shift in global conservation thinking. As FFP gears up for the FLARE Annual Meeting, new ideas for a workshop on any of the themes associated with the working group are welcome.
FFP is recruiting two volunteers to help run the working group. If you are interested in joining this working group or sharing new ideas, please fill out this form.
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The Future of Forest Work and Communities
For more information about The Future of Forest Work and Communities working group, visit the FLARE website.
The FLARE Working Group leads, with the FLARE Coordinator Daniel Miller, at the 2024 FLARE Annual Meeting.
Featured Research
New Report on Forests as Pillars of Social and Economic Resilience
Launched on World Environment Day, June 5, 2025, the new International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) report: Forests as Pillars of Social and Economic Resilience highlights how forests can help societies respond to the Triple Planetary Crisis of pollution, climate change, and biodiversity loss. The report was developed by an international team of researchers, including FLARE members Ida Nadia Sedjro Djenontin, Santiago Izquierdo-Tort, Anne Larson, and Rachel Carmenta, among many others. It explores how forests support resilient livelihoods and how policy can foster stronger, more just forest-based futures. This is the first assessment of its kind under the Global Forest Expert Panels (GFEP) initiative, offering valuable insights for policymakers, practitioners, and researchers alike.
Call for Papers
People and Nature seeks proposals for the special feature “Halfway through the UN Decade: Taking Stock of Social-Ecological Restoration”. Restoration scientists and practitioners are invited to submit proposals exploring the social and ecological outcomes of restoration initiatives. Research that critically examines challenges, evaluates impact, and offers innovative solutions is highly encouraged.
Learn more and submit your proposals here.
Abstract Submission Deadline: June 30, 2025.
Full Manuscript Deadline: December 31, 2025.
Opportunities
Jobs
The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) and World Agroforestry (ICRAF), or CIFOR-ICRAF, is hiring for positions including Project Coordinator, Seed Source Technician, and Senior Scientist. Check out the roles for their general call for consultants in various locations around the world.
Deadlines vary.
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The Ford Foundation is seeking a Program Officer for its $2 billion global funding initiative, Building Institutions and Networks (BUILD).
Deadline is 7 July 2025. Apply Today! (Application deadline has passed)
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The Pulte Institute at the University of Notre Dame is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Sustainability to lead a global synthesis on artisanal and small-scale mining (ASM).
Deadline is 15 August 2025. Apply Today! (Application deadline has passed)
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The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is hiring for positions such as Fisheries Global and Regional Processes Specialist, Governing Bodies Support Specialist, and Interns and Fellows for various programs. You can check for more here.
Deadlines vary. (Application deadline have passed)
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Request for Proposals
The Rights and Resources Initiative (RRI) is requesting proposals for consulting services. The Consultant will serve as the central coordinator of the Path To Scale (P2S) initiative, responsible for delivering a P2S Statement of Support, facilitating the network’s pledge mobilization strategy, and managing a dedicated P2S working group (already formed).
Deadline is 5:00pm ET on 30 June 2025. Submit your proposal here. (Application deadline has passed).
Upcoming Conferences of Interest
2nd Annual National Sustainability Society National Conference
Achieving sustainability, viewed as balancing social, economic, and environmental goals over time, requires transformative change. Current trajectories of change across these goals are rushing the planet and its people headlong towards biodiversity loss, climate change, socio-political polarization, and pollution. But these outcomes are not inevitable. Actions and choices for a different future, from the individual to organizational and societal levels and from nearer to the longer-term futures, have the power to ameliorate or reverse these outcomes. The second Annual National Sustainability Society conference will invite participation and contributions focusing on transformative change for a just and sustainable future.
Notre Dame, Indiana, USA
20-23 October 2025
Register to attend today! (Deadline has passed)
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11th World Conference on Ecological Restoration (SER2025)
The Society for Ecological Restoration’s (SER) World Conference is an exciting and inspiring biennial gathering of global experts in restoration, making SER2025 the premier venue for those interested in being active members of the global restoration community.
Denver, Colorado, USA
30 September – 4 October 2025
Register to attend today!