Indeed, environmentalism was born with a call to preserve the forests.

The plan aimed at increasing forest harvests by about 3 per year, while conserving forestland for recreation and other uses.

Forest conservation and management thus are crucial to tackling climate change.

From a global point of view, the best use of these resources is to maintain the forests, which is even possible with managed cutting.

Preserving the genome of these fungi in the old growth forest I think is absolutely critical for human health.

The global fund would introduce two prices one for carbon saving by restoring forests and one for avoiding carbon emissions by preserving them.

A well designed fund would slow or stop deforestation, preserve biodiversity, and reduce emissions of carbon dioxide the burning of cleared forests.

Indeed, the greatest progress is now being made where the problem is the most urgent it is much easier to preserve forests than to restore them.

A REDD agency will be charged with treating rain forests as a natural resource that is to be preserved and restored rather than exploited and destroyed.

Moreover, investing in forest conservation and sustainable land use is one of the most cost effective means of mitigating climate change.

Costa Rica, for example, has already shown that a system of paying for the provision of environmental services (like maintaining natural forests) can work in ways that preserve the environment and boost the economy.

(m) Encouraging members to develop national policies aimed at sustainable utilization and conservation of timber producing forests and their genetic resources and maintaining ecological balance, in the context of the tropical timber trade.

Productive functions of forest resources. At the global level, the capacity of forests and the amount of land suitable for forest restoration is theoretically sufficient to meet the growing demand for forest products in the near to mid term.

Paper, for example, typically comes from sustainable forests, not rainforests.

One concrete action that should be taken at Bali is support for the initiative of the Rainforest Coalition, a group of developing countries that want help to maintain their forests.

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Developed countries could use some of the revenues generated to fulfill their obligations to help the developing countries in terms of adaptation and to compensate them for maintaining forests, which provide a global public good through carbon sequestration.

Encouraging members to develop national policies aimed at sustainable utilization and conservation of timber producing forests and their genetic resources and maintaining ecological balance at strengthening forest law enforcement and governance to this end

The underlying causes of deforestation include the demand on forest land for agriculture, grazing and human settlements the growing demand for timber and forest products and a range of biotic and abiotic factors that adversely affect forest health and vitality.

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Much is known about how trees and agroforestry can benefit smallholders and farmers and there are well developed systems for using trees to help maintain and improve soil fertility, rehabilitate degraded land and protect water resources.

(d) Encourage cross sectoral coordination, nationally and internationally, between the forest sector and other sectors, so as to identify and reduce impacts on forests from decisions taken outside the forest sector

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Reducing demographic pressure on forests.

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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.

We depend on water, forests, deserts, oceans.

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(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

More than 400 million people who live in or near forests rely on them for subsistence and income.

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Other natural resources can be conserved.

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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).

Its cloud forests and lowland rainforests are particularly rich.

Woodlands of the central region provide most of Bhutan's forest production.

We are determined to maintain the momentum that we have generated.

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.

3. The present instrument applies to all types of forests.

Forestry and cattle industries are also maintained.

The values and benefits of forests accrue at different scales.