The United Nations World Restoration Flagships (WRF) represent the most ambitious, promising, and inspiring examples of large-scale ecosystem restoration initiatives worldwide. They raise awareness about tangible ecosystem restoration action for a broad audience and inspire the global movement to scale up efforts. These Flagships are successful and well-documented, large-scale examples of restoration efforts across countries and ecosystems with proven implementation success and further ambition. They are strategic and innovative in nature and have the potential for triggering transformational change and inspire other initiatives around the world. Being monitored transparently on the UN Decade’s formal monitoring platform (FERM) as well as restor.eco ,and other interoperable platforms, they represent key investment opportunities for measurable impact, compelling stories, and proven contributions to global targets such as specific SDGs and biodiversity targets .