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.

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.

30. There are three main programmes of action to upgrade and protect forests and other natural ecosystems

The alarming rate of deforestation continues to warrant international attention and there is a need to renew the pledge to combat deforestation, restoring the forest functions in degraded landscapes and improve the livelihoods of poor people living in and around forests worldwide.

Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical dry forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests.

Staatsbosbeheer, founded in 1899, is a the Dutch government organization for Forestry and the management of nature reserves.

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

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).

Pursuant to the Law on Forests natural persons shall have rights to access and freely move within a State or a local government forest, unless provided otherwise by legal acts.

Most of them are unhappy with how forests, mountainous areas and natural resources of the country are being destroyed and not being cared for properly.

Conflict over the control of forests and other natural resources has often been an obstacle to peace.

Forest landscape restoration is a vehicle for delivering on internationally agreed commitments on forests, biodiversity, climate change and desertification.

How can increased community control of forests be harnessed for successful forest landscape restoration?

The Challenge calls for the restoration of forest landscapes to benefit people and nature and contribute to reversing the trends of forest loss and degradation.

Australia s forest resources encompass some 41 million hectares of native forest and 1 million hectares of plantations.

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

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.

4. For purposes of the calculation of the distribution of votes under paragraph 2 (b) of Article 10, tropical forest resources means natural closed forests and forest plantations productive closed broadleaved forests as defined by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The Aichi targets call for cutting by half the rate of loss of the planet s natural habitats, including forests, by 2020.

In Indonesia, efforts are focused on rehabilitating degraded natural forests and involve not only government agencies but also private companies.

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

Non human primates live in a diverse number of forested habitats in the tropical latitudes of Africa, India, Southeast Asia, and South America, including rainforests, mangrove forests, and montane forests.

Yet these projects and programmes often fall within the field of natural resource management (agroforestry, reforestation, soil regeneration, forestry development, water resources management, efforts to combat bush fires, environmental education, etc.).

Forests disappearing, deserts where once there was forest.

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Efforts to defeat poverty and pursue sustainable development will be in vain if degradation and natural resource depletion, including loss of forests and illegal activities in the forest sector, continue unabated.

Reforestation was also recognized as a priority for protecting watersheds, mitigating natural disasters, and protecting investments in agriculture and infrastructure.

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

In that regard, UNMIL civil affairs officers and environment and natural resource advisers have continued to provide advice to the Ministry for Lands, Mines and Energy and the Forestry Development Authority on measures that should be taken to ensure the proper management of natural resources.

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.

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.

Coca farmers and producers slash and burn forests, polluting streams with toxic chemicals and damaging fragile ecosystems.

(d) Forests

Forests had been planted over an area exceeding 100,000 hectares and nearly 500,000 hectares of natural forests were systematically protected.

This has been found to be especially useful in incorporating gender into sectors not normally associated with women, such as forestry and natural resource management.

(a) To work towards a common code of conduct governing logging of indigenous forests, to which companies operating in their countries will have to adhere

Its cloud forests and lowland rainforests are particularly rich.

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

The Presidential Summit held in Guatemala in October 1993 had adopted a regional convention on the management and conservation of natural forest ecosystems and the development and planting of forests.

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

(h) Forest degradation

E. Forestry resources

D. Managed Forest