Deforestation

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

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Human activities which affect the right to a healthy environment also take the form of deforestation which over the centuries has led to substantial forest losses and environmental degradation.

Forest area cleared (thousands of hectares)

Globally, the loss of forests has mainly occurred in tropical and sub tropical regions, caused by the logging of hardwoods, clearance of forests for agriculture and collection of firewood.

Deforestation in the Panama Canal basin is a matter of particular concern.

Palm oil production is the leading cause of deforestation in Indonesia.

Industrial logging has played an important role in the destruction of primary rain forests in Central Africa and South east Asia.

Furthermore, deforestation is often linked with a failure to recognize the full value of forests.

In addition, there should be emphasis on another key area of concern for the sector, besides deforestation and forest degradation, namely, the lack of recognition of indigenous peoples and communities that live in and depend on forests.

While forest biodiversity continues to decline as a result of deforestation, forest degradation and associated fragmentation of forest habitats, strong efforts are now being made to reverse this trend by restoring the forest functions in degraded forest landscapes.

The importance of using satellite imagery in the prevention and management of forest fires in Algeria was outlined, along with some examples of deforestation between 1992 and 2000.

Workshop on Rehabilitation of Logged over Forest in Asia Pacific Region sub project III jointly orgariized by Japan

The challenges of the alarming rate of deforestation and forest degradation remain serious.

The deforestation, the growth of human populations, needing more land.

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4. The Lebanese Ministry of Agriculture had adopted measures to prohibit the felling of woodlands, require 20 per cent of surface area to be planted with new woodlands, regulate the campaign against forest fires and prohibit the hunting of wild birds.

However, the alarming rate of deforestation continues to warrant international attention and there is a need to renew the pledge to combat deforestation and restore forest functions (such as production, protection and conservation) at the landscape level, by rehabilitating degraded lands with, inter alia, forest plantations, and to improve the livelihoods of poor people living in and around forests worldwide as a priority.

Furthermore, it is reported that indigenous peoples are forced to work on clearing forest areas to prepare them for oil and gas exploration and transportation.

Vice Presidents Lubln Dilja (Albania) Hja lmar W. Hannesson (Iceland) Kazuo Sunaga (Japan)

Despite substantial progress in the formulation and implementation of national forest policies, deforestation and forest degradation continue at an alarming rate.

(f) Illegal logging and associated trade in forest products

In order to reverse this trend, it will therefore be necessary to increase forest management and reafforestation and to control the most important factors contributing to forest loss (excessive tree felling, unsuitable planting practices and forest fires among others).

This encourages unsustainable practices, hampers financing for sustainable forest management and contributes to deforestation.

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Measures taken to combat deforestation and forest degradation include the development and implementation of national forest programmes (and similar frameworks), management guidelines, financial encouragement, removal of perverse incentives for deforestation and public information campaigns.

The alarming rate of deforestation continues to warrant international attention and there is a need to renew the pledge to combat deforestation, restoring the forest functions in degraded landscapes and improve the livelihoods of poor people living in and around forests worldwide.

They're disappearing because some timber companies go in with clear cutting.

Underlying causes of deforestation are complex and varied.

Eighteen percent of our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions worldwide is the result of deforestation.

Vice Presidents Mr. Hja lmar W. Hanneson (Iceland) Mr. Lubln Dilja (Albania) Mr. Kazuo Sunaga (Japan)

In recent historic times, about 96 percent of the Coast Redwood forest was cut down, especially in a series of bursts of intense liquidation logging, clear cutting that took place in the 1970s through the early 1990s.

Hyperinflation in Germany in the 1920 s fanned separatism in Bavaria, the Rhineland, and Saxony, because these remote areas thought that Germany s central bank and central government in Berlin were discriminating against them. The separatists were politically radical on the left in Saxony, and on the far right in Bavaria and the Rhineland.

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Conversely, deforestation can contribute to land degradation and desertification.

Forests have deteriorated, due to illegal harvesting and encroachment for agriculture and settlement.13

15. Africa has suffered the worst deforestation with its forest cover reduced to only 8 per cent of the total land area of the African continent.

It observes that the regeneration fellings (300 hectares) in the Angeli area constitute 0.8 per cent and the thinning logging operations (200 hectares) constitute 0.5 per cent of the forest, administered by the Muotkatunturi Herdsmen's Committee.

Despite the alarming rate of deforestation, new strategies have been implemented and are emerging to address this critical matter and to further our understanding of the underlying driving forces.

Several ecosystems in Brazil need to be protected, such as the Amazon rainforest and the Atlantic forest.

Scenes of forest destruction, forest harvesting and forest fragmentation, thereby making that intact tapestry of the canopy unable to function in the marvelous ways that it has when it is not disturbed by humans.