Forest cover 1990

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.

Maintaining forest cover to meet present and future needs

Map showing forest cover in the Republic of Guatemala

Rehabilitation and conservation strategies for countries with low forest cover

Forest, rubber, and palm oil plantations cover 60 of the island.

In 1994, only 1.3 per cent of our forest cover remains.

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

Reaffirming the special needs and requirements of countries with fragile forest ecosystems, including those of low forest cover countries,

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.

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

The 1976 plan called for sustainable logging and basic forest fire control, but war intervened, costing Afghanistan half its forest cover.

Cambodia's primary forest cover fell from over 70 in 1969 to just 3.1 in 2007.

China China has increased forest cover by more than 10 in the past 50 years.

National data on land use and forest cover were often outdated or not in a suitable format.

Deforestation has proceeded to the extent that not many SIDS have much natural forest left.

Forest cover declined from 70 of the country's total land area in 1900 to about 18.3 in 1999.

Furthermore, the recommendations on sustainable forest management support the preliminary work on the Joint Approach to Low Forest Cover Countries (LFCCs) that is linked to decision 12 COP.6.

Examples include natural fibres, organic agricultural products, recyclable and biodegradable products or sustainably produced forest products.

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).

To this end, forest restoration, the natural expansion of forest and the establishment of plantation forests have helped, to some extent, in countering degradation of forest ecosystems and to bring environmental, commercial and social benefits to society.

There has been an increase in forest cover and in the size of areas dedicated to the protection of biodiversity.

Translating CO2 into an illogical and inefficient measure of forest cover seems intended mainly to ensure that an alarming message results.

Data released by the Ministry of Agriculture showed that the country had a forest cover of 64 as of October 2005.

As a result of our conservation efforts, Bhutan has successfully maintained 72.5 per cent of its land area under forest cover.

Departments with the largest proportion of forest cover (70 per cent) are Petén (52 ), Alta Verapaz (10 ) and Izabal (7 ) (see map).

Neria Andin, Assistant Director, Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Forest Management Bureau (Philippines), acted as moderator of the discussion.

What I really did was I just followed nature, and nature doesn't know monocultures, but a natural forest is multilayered.

A number of participants noted that regional processes have a crucial role in establishing mechanisms for forest related issues, institutional frameworks and international arrangements on forests, such as the Tehran Process for Low Forest Cover Countries.

They have huge canopies and lots of needles, which provide cover and shelter for other plants and animals, and whitebark feed the forest.

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

Rights to indigenous land, forest and natural resources should be clearly identified in poverty reduction strategy papers documents, the role of indigenous peoples should be specified and the control by indigenous peoples over traditional land, forest, natural resources and decisions on the type of development should be acknowledged.

Monitoring the global forest cover and the long term rates of deforestation and reforestation is an essential element of the study of global climate change.

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Forest Resources in the Tropical World (forest areas)

Forest products, coffee, palm oil, palm heart and natural rubber grown under ecologically sustainable agro forestry and forest management systems, processed and marketed through agro industries with farmer participation, have proved to be the most viable alternatives.

Access and free movement of natural persons in other forests may be restricted by the owner or the lawful possessor of the forest.

Approaches to forest landscape restoration were similar to those for other natural resource management, so therefore existing toolkits, structures etc. could be used.

Action taken by concerned countries in regard to degraded lands and the promotion of natural and planted forests includes forest restoration through natural regeneration, the establishment of plantations and the implementation of agroforestry projects.

The representatives of the following intergovernmental organizations participated in the dialogue World Conservation Union and the secretariat of the Tehran Process for Low Cover Forest Countries.

Two years ago only 1.5 per cent of our forest cover was left, which is why we lose every year 36.6 million metric tons of land.

To this end Bhutan has committed itself to maintaining 60 per cent of its land mass under forest cover, including 20 per cent as national parks.

Forest operations and the forest industry provide employment and income to millions of workers and forest dwellers.

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