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Healthy urban soils make the theme of the World Soil Day 2025. Image credits: FAO

World Soil Day – spotlight on the importance of healthy soils

A contractor getting ready for birch planting. Photo credits: Berglind Guðjónsdóttir

Land Restoration in Skeiða- og Gnúpverjahreppur 2025

The Hamburg Tree for 2025. Photo: Steina Matt

Jóhann Páll Guðnason, chief foreman of port works at Faxaflói Ports, and Viktor Steingrímsson, logger at Land and Forest Iceland, after selecting the Hamburg Tree for 2025. Photo: Steina Matt

Christmas trees exceptionally beautiful this year

Land and Forest Iceland leading in sustainable land use

New Strategy and Organisational Structure Presented at Land and Forest Iceland

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Stracta Hotel in Hella. Photo credits: Stracta

Theme of the 2026 Icelandic Forestry Conference will be "Life in the Forest" 

FRA2025 - Photo: FAO/Vasily Maksimov

Global Forest Loss Has Halved Compared to Previous Decades

GLF Climate 2025

Live Stream: The Bonn Challenge at COP30

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The ForestWell Education Project yielded seven training modules

Minister Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson addressing the seminar on carbon markets. Photo credits: Pétur Halldórsson

Carbon Markets – A Key Tool for Achieving Climate Goals

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Consultation open on new support framework for land restoration and forestry

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Land and Forest handles matters of land reclamation and forestry on a national level.

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