A forest may consist either of closed forest formations where trees of various storeys and undergrowth cover a high proportion of the ground or open forest.

Specific criterion (ii) The extent to which the international arrangement on forests succeeds in enhancing the positioning of forests on the international agenda

Forests disappearing, deserts where once there was forest.

The fields and the forests, the green hills.

Ministers participating at the high level segment may also wish to send a message to the High level Plenary Meeting of the sixtieth session of the General Assembly about renewing the pledge to make progress towards sustainable forest management by reducing the rate of net deforestation, maintaining forest functions, restoring degraded and unmanaged forest landscapes, conserving natural forests and improving the livelihoods of poor people living in and around forests worldwide.

Protection of moral and material interests 665 671 137

International cooperation in the area of culture and research 672 139

There is a need to raise the profile of forest related issues on the international agenda, making clear links between sustainable forest management and the socio economic development of countries and forest dependent people.

It also puts forward the suggestion that a global goal on sustainable forest management would help raise the profile of forests and provide a framework for national targets.

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

strengthen the CPF to enhance the capacity of CPF members towards the implementation of sustainable forest management and proposals for action strengthen the capacity of the CPF to search for resources, such as the role played by IPCC for activities related to climate change strengthen guidance to the CPF and its members.

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.

Forest and Grassland Conversion

(c) Countries with arid and semi arid areas, forested areas and areas liable to forest decay

Forests should be managed to optimize both their local benefits and higher level public goods.

(vi) Undertake measures to prevent, monitor and fight forest fires, and to reforest destroyed areas

(d) Making sustainable forest management a higher priority, inter alia, through integrating the National Forest Programme or other national forest strategies into national planning strategies, including poverty reduction strategies where they exist

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

The number of wildfires reached a record high in 1994, with more than 66,000 fires and over 3.8 million acres burned.

For example, the integration of local and indigenous communities in sustainable forest management has strengthened the implementation of the IPF IFF proposals for action.

Land use change and forestry

The jungle is not the place for him.

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

Out of the total area of Bosnia and Herzegovina (5,113,000 hectares), forests and forest land account for 53 per cent (2,700,770 hectares or 0.71 hectares of forest and forest land per capita).

Rehabilitation and conservation strategies for countries with low forest cover Rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands and promotion of natural and planed forests Maintaining forest cover to meet present and future needs Social and cultural, and economic, aspects of forests.

Benefits of FOREST LANDSCAPE RESTORATION

(y) Enhance access by households, small scale forest owners, forest dependent local and indigenous communities, living in and outside forest areas, to forest resources and relevant markets in order to support livelihoods and income diversification from forest management, consistent with sustainable forest management.

In the rural areas of developing countries, forests and the forest industries may enhance employment and income generation.

This is just one photograph from the air, and it shows you the forested highlands of Gombe.

communicate IAF's activities and outcomes in simple language to a wider range of constituencies.

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

And the monkeys in that monkey forest looked, actually, fairly happy.

Understanding forest landscape restoration

A small piece of empty space surrounded by a forest

How can increased community control of forests be harnessed for successful forest landscape restoration?

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

(d) Voluntary guidelines based on the Rio Forest Principles3 to support the implementation of the IPF IFF proposals for action on the ground

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.

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).

State owned forests and forest land is 81 per cent and private owned is 19 per cent.

This is something called an underground forest.

Map showing forest cover in the Republic of Guatemala

FAO is currently preparing for a global forest resource assessment for the year 2000, FRA 2000, that will make extensive use of remote sensing and GIS, ranging from coarse resolution global coverage for forest cover mapping to high and very high resolution multi date satellite imagery for surveying global and regional forest and land cover changes.

Re emphasizing the importance of the United Nations Forum on Forests as the high level intergovernmental body on forests within the United Nations and the continued supporting role of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests, and the need for the Forum to provide the Partnership with clear guidance,

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