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.

It has three main objectives control of illegal logging, control of forest fire, and rehabilitation and reforestation of degraded lands.

Encouraging members to support and develop tropical timber reforestation, as well as rehabilitation and restoration of degraded forest land, with due regard for the interests of local communities dependent on forest resources

(j) Encouraging members to support and develop tropical timber reforestation, as well as rehabilitation and restoration of degraded forest land, with due regard for the interests of local communities dependent on forest resources

Restoring just 15 of degraded forest landscapes worldwide could generate up to 85 billion worth of ecosystem services every year, mostly benefiting rural and underprivileged communities.

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

Rehabilitation of degraded areas

Re wetting peatlands and the restoration of degraded peat forests should be the next step, followed by the creation of early warning systems to detect and control forest fires. Finally, with the support of the private sector, Indonesia needs to establish a community based forest management system.

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.

It's muffled English. It's degraded Japanese.

Others say they feel degraded and ashamed.

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

However, the alarming rate of deforestation continues to warrant international attention and there is a need to renew the pledge to combat deforestation and restore forest functions (such as production, protection and conservation) at the landscape level, by rehabilitating degraded lands with, inter alia, forest plantations, and to improve the livelihoods of poor people living in and around forests worldwide as a priority.

With regard to the regeneration of the natural environment, the most important initiatives include reforestation, reclamation of degraded lands, protection of lowlands, the cutting of firebreaks and the development of forest stands with a view to the sustainable management of natural resources.

E. Measures for the rehabilitation of degraded land and for early

E. Measures for the rehabilitation of degraded land and for early

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

Some 10 20 per cent of drylands are already degraded (medium certainty).

Options include improved ecosystem management, rehabilitation of degraded ecosystems and wetlands protection.

Without such enforcement, the landscape would rapidly return to its degraded condition.

UNIDO has also developed a programme to rehabilitate and recover degraded land.

(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

Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

As a result, the operational capacity of the LRA has been degraded tremendously.

E. Measures for the rehabilitation of degraded land and for early warning systems

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

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

Rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands, and the promotion of natural and planted forests

Rehabilitation of degraded land in Africa is generally perceived as a long term process.

However, they are likely to differ in forest rich and forest poor countries.

Sustainable forest management

Sustainable forest management

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

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.

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.

It mentions support for the implementation of models aimed at the rehabilitation of severely degraded areas.

One Forest, Two Tigers

Financing sustainable forest management

Forest related scientific knowledge

Forest health and productivity

International Forest Policy Forum

Bridal Veil Falls (DuPont State Forest) waterfall located in the DuPont State Forest in North Carolina.

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

And if He tests him and restricts his livelihood thereupon he says , My Lord has degraded me !

And if He tests him and restricts his livelihood thereupon he says , My Lord has degraded me !