Rehabilitation and conservation strategies for countries with low forest cover

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

Forest conservation and protection of unique types of forests and fragile ecosystems

International Forest Policy Forum

Fuelwood conservation and substitution is of high priority in the African forest sector.

d. National forest policy and programs

Under the right circumstances, decentralization enhances efficiency, equity and participation in forest management and conservation.

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

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

The Government is preparing to adopt an integrated conservation policy for cultural heritage.

The main constraints blocking effective action are undoubtedly the overwhelming superiority of vested interests controlling forest resources and the equally grave lack of political will manifest in governmental attitudes towards forest conservation and sustainable use.

(p) Create, develop or expand, and maintain networks of protected forest areas, taking into account the importance of conserving representative forests, by means of a range of conservation mechanisms, applied within and outside protected forest areas

Instruments aimed at tackling market failure and offering incentives to provide benefits such as watershed protection, biodiversity conservation, recreation and carbon sequestration would contribute to sustainable forest management, as well as socially more optimal forest activities.

The reform of forestry policy is introducing two important innovations (i) preparation of forest management plans and (ii) adoption of forest certification and labelling systems.

Forests and terrestrial ecosystems Forest management and conservation were seen by several Parties as important to protect watersheds, combat land degradation and desertification, preserve species and sequester carbon.

Setting clear objectives for international forest policy and linking sustainable forest management more closely to the internationally agreed development goals are avenues that warrant careful consideration at the Forum.

CPF members state that, increasingly, national forest programmes are seen as an effective tool for cross sectoral and participatory policy making and for translating international forest related commitments into practice.

Over the past 10 years of the international forest policy dialogue process, the debate on a global forest convention has prevented progress on the issues mentioned above and on others.

Many countries report action to improve the use of economic and policy instruments to promote sustainable forest management.

Such priorities could be common to all options discussed below and could be used to focus international forest policy.

In some countries, the programmes are developed at the subnational level because significant forest policy responsibilities have been decentralized.

(c) Strengthen the vertical linkages between forest policy development and dialogue at the global, regional, national and local levels.

Stakeholders at the international, regional, national and subnational levels have attached importance to criteria and indicators as providing a framework for policy formulation and monitoring of sustainable forest management and national forest programmes.

Action taken in regard to rehabilitation and conservation includes afforestation programmes and the implementation of detailed operational guidelines aimed at conserving the protective functions of forests in areas of low forest cover.

Appropriate allocation of roles and responsibilities between central and local governments and the devolution of certain responsibilities to actors outside governments can contribute to equitable, efficient and sound forest management and conservation.

Recent developments in close to nature forest management provide a model for a decentralized system that can yield good biodiversity conservation, consistent with the ecosystem approach adopted by the Convention on Biodiversity.

Nevertheless, beyond marketing, there is a need for conservation and processing of products in order to reduce wastage and provide food security during the period between harvests, particularly in the forest zone.

The benefits of such programmes, in terms of providing a focus for forest policy development and implementation, are widely recognized.

The Coalition (formerly known as the NGO Forest Working Group) was established in 1995 to bring the views of non governmental organizations and indigenous peoples' organizations to the various international forest policy forums and negotiations.

However, the (non binding) expanded programme of work on forest biological diversity contains three elements conservation, sustainable use and benefit sharing an enabling institutional and socio economic environment and knowledge assessment and monitoring.

The forest ecosystem and forest resources

Soil conservation.

The MASPFE therefore plans to take account of forest dwelling women in its training programme for the conservation and processing of food products, as has been done with women in Basse and Haute Guinée.

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

(a) To promote innovation, clean energy and energy efficiency and conservation improve policy, regulatory and financing frameworks and accelerate the deployment of cleaner technologies

But, rather than encouraging conservation, Bush has pursued a policy of drain America first, leaving America more dependent on external oil in the future.

Many rainforest countries have united in recent years to suggest the establishment of a rainforest conservation fund by the rich countries, to pay impoverished small farmers a small amount of money to preserve the forest.

World Conservation Union

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

Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

Making Water Conservation Pay

Energy conservation and efficiency

Tourism and biodiversity conservation

The Economics of Conservation

The World Conservation Union