Figure 11 Proportion of land area covered by forest (2004)

The forest covers an area of 30,000 dunams (30 square kilometers), and is the largest planted forest in Israel.

Indeed, every year, the world loses forest area the size of Ireland.

Extent of forest resources. Despite the efforts of the international forestry community, total forest area continues to decline in most regions of the world.

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).

Gross and net change in forest area, 1990 2000 (million ha year)

Salo meant before a great island, nowadays it means a great forest area.

Others are experimenting with efforts to raise productivity and quality in the area of forest products.

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

Even though the National Forest and Park Service engages in forestry in only part of the area administered by the Committee, 35 per cent of the forest pastures in the winter grazing area and 48 per cent of those in the summer grazing area are subject to forestry operations by the State and private owners.

The WWF and some researchers choose to get around this by defining the area of emissions as the area of forest needed to soak up the extra CO2.

Forest Park is a town in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, United States, and a part of the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.

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

It is the largest forest reserve in South America, covering an area greater than 5.6 million acres (23,000 km²).

Fires A fire in early July 1995 consumed much of the mountain forest, and the eastern half became residential districts of the Athens area.

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

Over 10 per cent of the global forest area is currently under some form of protection (although the impact and effectiveness of such protection varies significantly).

Brazil's 1988 Constitution declares its Amazonian forest, to be a national heritage area and any use would be subject to the law.

Increase significantly the area of protected forests worldwide and other areas of sustainably managed forests, as well as the proportion of forest products from sustainably managed forests

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

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

C. Greater recognition of sustainable forest management and forest products trade

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.

The Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra was chosen because, first, it represents significant area of forests on the island of Sumatra, because of the biodiversity, of lowland and mountain forest.

reduce deforestation with a certain percentage within a defined time period reduce by half the proportion of people in extreme poverty that inhabit the forest areas of the world by 2015 double the forest area under secured community ownership, with rights to use and trade products and services by 2015 increase the area of forests under sustainable management by x ha within 10 year

After centuries of unsustainable use, as well as rapidly escalating forest destruction since 1950, less than 60,000 km2 (23,000 sq mi) or 10 of Madagascar's land area remains forested.

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.

That programme should increase productivity in the mountain range forest area, supply water to farmers in the region and promote forestry locally with grass roots involvement.

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

4.3 The State party notes that as far as the Paadarskaidi area is concerned, the National Forest  Park Service carried out increment felling (preparative cutting) totalling some 200 300 hectares between 1998 and 2000. The distance between the Angeli area and the Paadarskaidi area is about 30 kilometres.

6.3 Regarding the Kippalrova area in which logging was planned, the Committee noted that this forest tract fell within the area covered by the Supreme Court decision of 22 June 1995. Accordingly it did not appear that further judicial review of this decision was possible.

In complementary development of forest production a multi purposeful interest of sustainable forest development is sought.

Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

While the native Mbuti and Bantu peoples traditionally respect the forest and its wildlife, immigrants into the area do not feel the same connection to the land.

In view of the total surface of forest areas, both the logging operations carried out and the planned ones are less extensive than those carried out in private forests in the area.

Stronger coordination of forest policies

The State party observes that as far as the admissible part of the complaint with regard to the Paadarskaidi area is concerned, the National Forest and Park Service mainly carried out increment felling (preparative cutting), in the area, amounting to approximately 110 hectares in 1998.

Implementation of national forest programmes. The proposals for action have effectively shaped the national forest programmes and their equivalents in many countries, and these national forest programmes have become national institutional frameworks for achieving sustainable forest management.

For the purposes of determining the area of deforestation to come into the accounting system under Article 3, paragraph 3, each Party shall determine the forest area using the same spatial assessment unit as is used for the determination of afforestation and reforestation, but not larger than 1 hectare.

Forest fiscal reform provides opportunities to increase revenues generated from forest resources.

At the beginning of the 20th century around 420 000 km² or 35 of Ethiopia's land was covered by trees but recent research indicates that forest cover is now approximately 11.9 of the area.

Enhance forest based economic, social and environmental benefits, including by improving the livelihoods of forest dependent people

The Viphya Forest to the south of the city is the largest man made forest in Africa.

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

What it is now is mud, and the area of the ocean floor that has been transformed from forest to level mud, to parking lot, is equivalent to the entire area of all the forests that have ever been cut down on all of the earth in the history of humanity.