The fields and the forests, the green hills.

the harsh country were as unchanging to them as the stars and just as unyielding.

They dance her over the mountains and valleys, through fields and forests, through night and day.

Through the mountains and into the forest.

9. Underlines the importance of sustainable forest management, the avoidance of deforestation, as well as the restoration of lost and degraded forest ecosystems of mountains in order to enhance the role of mountains as natural carbon and water regulators

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.

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.

(iv) Rain on Colombia s Pacific coast increased the threat of landslides, while inland forest fires destroyed about 150,000 hectares

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.

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.

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

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

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

Loan Negotiation Hill Community Forest (1987) World Bank, Washington, D.C. (member of the delegation)

Combating deforestation and forest degradation

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).

(e) Ability to promptly detect various types of disasters, such as forest fires and volcanic eruptions

These are lands that are at the margins of forests, semi arid regions, mountains, wetlands and land corridors.

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,

Forest

The woods.

Carson, yeah. Glad to meet you.

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.

The kind who'd look at a mountain and see a watershed look at a forest and see lumber for houses look at a stony field and see a farm.

It's east of the mountain and west of the forest, and so large that you must press your neck hard against your back to see the battlements.

This route does not take you towards the shining heights it descends into a gloomy valley deep into the dark, dank forest

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.

Forests disappearing, deserts where once there was forest.

Implementation of the proposals for action of IPF IFF

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

Forest

Moriyama!

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

(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

Have to cut through jungles... and climb mountains so high they rise above the clouds.

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

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.

Specific criterion (i) The extent to which high level engagement furthers political commitment to the implementation of the IPF IFF proposals for action by countries

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

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

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

Article 1 of the Covenant

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