Learning about Ecosystems and Forests - LEAF

12/10/2026

🌊 🏝️ We are excited to announce the launch of our second RESTORE educational resources: Small Island Developing States, drawing from the RESTORE Big Ocean States Documentary, with a practical example from Mauritius.

Our second RESTORE resource set includes:
🌱 Learning about Ecosystems and Forests - LEAF Lesson Plan and
🎤 Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) Action Guide.

These resources explore how coastal ecosystems, people, and the ocean are interconnected, and how ecosystem restoration can support biodiversity, livelihoods, climate resilience, and a sustainable Blue Economy.

The RESTORE educational series is developed by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) in collaboration with UN Environment Programme, supporting the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

Created in collaboration with our programme network, these resources inspire educators to bring ecosystem restoration education into their classrooms, sparking curiosity, raising awareness, and deepening learners’ care for nature.

🌐 If you already have a restoration project at your school, through an FEE Programme, such as Eco-Schools or Eco-Campus sign up to School and share your restoration story with a global network of educators: https://www.leaf.global/generation-restoration-schools

📗 Access the RESTORE educational resources here: https://www.leaf.global/ecosystem-restoration/resources

11/10/2026

📚🌊 Launching tomorrow...

We are excited to share the upcoming Small Island Developing States educational resources with our global network! 🌐

We are very thankful to the students at Loreto College Curepipe, Mauritius, who contributed to the creation of the LEAF Lesson Plan and YRE Action Guide, inspiring others to care about ocean health and the restoration of coastal ecosystems.

1 day to go!

Keep an eye out on this page tomorrow: https://www.leaf.global/ecosystem-restoration/resources

Reef Conservation

07/10/2026

Learners from Loreto College Curepipe, Mauritius, supported by specialists from the Reef Conservation, visited Anse la Raie Public Beach and through Learning about Ecosystems and Forests - LEAF and YRE they explored coastal ecosystems, documented environmental challenges, and raised awareness about ecosystem protection, local wildlife, and ocean health.

🌱 Through sensory exploration, learners observed the plants, animals, water, and soil around them, looking for signs of ecosystem health and degradation.

🪣 They identified plastic waste trapped in mangrove roots, documented on its impact, and took part in a mangrove clean-up.

🐢 Then creating awareness messages encouraging people to protect turtles, nests, beach habitats, and wildlife.

By exploring environmental challenges and highlighting positive solutions, their story can inspire both island and non-island schools to connect ecosystem restoration education to ocean and coastal ecosystem’s health.

Their experience contributed to the upcoming RESTORE: Small Island Developing States educational resources, published by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) within the framework of the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UN Environment Programme).

📚🌊 The resources include a LEAF Lesson Plan and YRE Action Guide, exploring how island states are protecting and restoring coastal ecosystems to support biodiversity, climate resilience, and coastal communities’ livelihoods.

Launching 12 October 2026. Stay tuned!
👉 Discover their journey and see how learning turned into action: https://www.leaf.global/news-stories/from-learning-to-action-mauritius-coastal-ecosystems

25/09/2026

🏜️☀️ New resources to support learning and action through LEAF and YRE!

Explore how communities in Central America’s Dry Corridor are responding to drought and food insecurity through ecosystem restoration, then connecting their experiences with issues closer to home.

Our first RESTORE resource set includes:
🌱 Learning about Ecosystems and Forests - LEAF Lesson Plan and
🎤 Young Reporters for the Environment (YRE) Action Guide

Developed with contributions from our programme network, the resources connect a real restoration story with learning ideas for your own setting. They can also support biodiversity and restoration work through Eco-Schools and Eco-Campus

The RESTORE educational series is developed by the Foundation for Environmental Education (FEE) in collaboration with UN Environment Programme supporting the Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

👉 Sign-up to bring the ecological restoration lessons from Central America: The Dry Corridor to your Restoration Schools. https://www.leaf.global/generation-restoration-schools

🌐 Already taking action for restoration through your FEE programme? Share that work with a wider audience through Schools.

21/09/2026

Every educator can inspire change.
Every learner can play a part.

Already exploring ecosystems, investigating environmental issues, or helping nature recover through Learning about Ecosystems and Forests - LEAF, Young Reporters for the Environment, Eco-Schools, or Eco-Campus ?

Give that work a wider audience through Schools.

From school grounds and public parks to rivers, forests, coastlines, and communities, opportunities to learn and take action for restoration can be found all around us 🌱

Coordinated by Foundation for Environmental Education's Learning about Ecosystems and Forests (LEAF) programme and contributing to the UN Environment Programme's Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, Schools connect ecological restoration education across the FEE network and beyond 🌐

Join Schools and share your school’s restoration story: https://www.leaf.global/generation-restoration-schools

📽️ Footage: UNEP - the Frontiers of Hope
🎙️ Narrator: Maria Clara Medeiros Coutinho

18/09/2026

04/09/2026

🌱 Learning from Mexico: Engaging learners through restoration of grassland areas.

Students from Colegio Regional Bilingüe, in Mexico, are taking action for ecosystem restoration by creating seed bombs, using native grass species, and natural materials.

For their activity, students selected the blue grama grass, which adapts well to drought and extreme temperatures and helps stabilise soil while providing nutrition and habitat for wildlife.

Through LEAF learners deepen their care and commitment to their local environment while discovering that even small, locally relevant actions can contribute to ecosystem restoration.

Read more about the restoration activities of students from Colegio Regional Bilingüe, in Mexico on our Schools Stories.

🔗 https://www.leaf.global/news-stories/generation-restoration-schools-mexic

25/08/2026

Discovering Ecosystems with LEAF: Malaysia

From ancient tropical rainforests to coastal mangroves and coral reefs, Malaysia is home to diverse ecosystems that support species biodiversity and sustain the livelihoods of local communities.

Yet, urbanisation, agriculture, plantations, and consequent deforestations have degraded natural environments across the country.

One way of restoring these ecosystems is to create an environment where people can connect with nature around them while exploring restoration methods and traditional practices.

Through LEAF, learners explore how communities can work in balance with ecosystems and take part in practical restoration. In Malaysia, this includes syntropic agroforestry, where degraded or underused land around schools is transformed by planting mixed species in ways that mimic natural forest systems.

🌱 Bring ecosystem restoration into your own learning community. Join FEE and UNEP's Schools movement: https://www.leaf.global/generation-restoration-schools

21/08/2026