In addition, considerable efforts are being made to improve natural forest management and recover forest loss through the Forestry Incentives Programme of the National Forestry Institute (INAB).

Impacts were found to be negative in general. Foreseen impacts on forest ecosystems included increased fire hazard, loss of moisture, shifts in forest extent and type, loss of biodiversity, loss of fodder, increased incidence of tree stand mortality due to diseases, and reduction in food production and animal habitats.

Another global consequence of deforestation is loss of biological diversity.

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).

The solution to the forest crisis should start with the implementation of existing commitments and the generation of the additional funds required to halt forest loss.

The Challenge calls for the restoration of forest landscapes to benefit people and nature and contribute to reversing the trends of forest loss and degradation.

Reverse the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, including protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation, and increase efforts to prevent forest degradation

It is possible, however, to track the evolution of the proportion of forest cover, assuming the same rate of loss of forested areas (about 52,000 hectares a year) and a recovery rate of 10,000 hectares a year.

Forest fire, Your Honor?

17. Despite widespread deforestation in large parts of the developing world, the forest products industry continues to thrive well with a global annual turnover of US 330 billion.

Forests disappearing, deserts where once there was forest.

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.

Forest fire?

In the past, non governmental organizations had expressed their fears that the negotiation of a forest convention could easily mean another lost decade without decisive action to stop and reverse forest loss.

Panellists discussed current trends gaps and challenges for sustainable forest management in the regions such as loss of forest cover, land degradation owing to high population density in forests, illegal logging and other corrupt activities inappropriate use of forest subsidies violent conflict in forested areas unsustainable management plans and inadequate forest certification efforts.

Would he disappear into the north woods?

Half of the world's forests have vanished.

Article 1 of the Covenant

Substantial progress has been made in establishing protected area networks in all regions of the world to prevent loss of forest biological diversity.

Restore forest landscapes to benefit people and nature and contribute to reversing the trends of forest loss and degradation.

The Forum and the Conference of Parties to the Convention have addressed loss of forest biological diversity and collaboration between the Convention and the Forum.

This march of so called progress resulting in the loss of forests was documented by John Perlin in his 1989 book A Forest Journey .

America.

Iran states that the reduction, equivalent to a decrease of 166.3 hectares of mangrove area, resulted in a loss of breeding ground for various species as well as a nursery ground for about 6,000,000 fish larvae.

(b) The loss of an opportunity, including educational opportunities

Forest applications include forest area estimation and mapping, forest monitoring, forest fire assessment and forest management.

(d) Develop and establish positive incentives, in particular for developing countries as well as countries with economies in transition, to reduce the loss of forests, to promote reforestation, afforestation and rehabilitation of degraded forests, to implement sustainable forest management and to increase the area of protected forests

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

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.

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

Implementation of the proposals for action of IPF IFF

(k) Trees outside forests as well as urban and peri urban forests

Forest ownership in the US is diverse it includes extensive private forests, federally managed forests and public forests managed by state and local governments as well as forests owned by native Indian tribes.12

The deforestation rate in the 1990s was estimated at 14.6 million hectares per year since 5.2 million hectares were gained through afforestation and natural expansion of forests, the rate of net deforestation was 9.4 million hectares per year (see table).3 Most of the losses occur in the tropics, while in the non tropical regions forests are expanding either naturally (for example on large areas of abandoned agricultural land) or as a result of afforestation programmes.

IPF and IFF agreed on over 270 proposals for action for sustainable forest management.

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.

Forest

The woods.

(a) Sustainable management of forest and afforestation reforestation area of forest growing stock and

Decentralization in the forest sector should not be implemented in isolation from a general national forestry strategy such as national forest programs.

Forest landscape restoration is relevant to a wide range of IPF and IFF proposals for action and the UNF programme of work.

29. Sustainable management of forests was of great importance to all countries, especially Bangladesh, given its large population and diminishing forests.

Agreed ad ref Reverse the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, including protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation, and increase efforts to prevent forest degradation

1. who lost his or her ability to work, lost his or her capabilities to perform functions based on which he or she was insured, or lost his ability to work for income

At the moment, Europe depends on importing millions of tons of soy from South America, where its production contributes to global warming, to deforestation, to biodiversity loss, to feed livestock here in Europe.