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

The purchases in Africa alone amount to an area of agricultural land the size of Kenya.

China s forest coverage rate increased from 12 in the early 1980 s to 18.21 today.

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

Forest, rubber, and palm oil plantations cover 60 of the island.

(b) Three hundred votes shall be distributed among the producer members in accordance with their respective shares of the total tropical forest resources tropical forests of all producer members and

The total surface of land under cultivation in Bosnia and Herzegovina is 2.5 million hectares, or 50 per cent of the country's territory there is 0.7 hectares per capita.

Fourthly, China has increased its carbon sinks by promoting reforestation. China s forest coverage rate increased from 12 in the early 1980 s to 18.21 today.

Mushrooms, such as Shiitake mushrooms, make up half of the forest industry, with an output of approximately 5.6 billion yen.

In 1932, five forests with the total area of 4,556 hectares were declared natural reserves.

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

(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

Many countries have significant areas of ecologically important forest under some form of legal protection.

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

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

The landscape is covered mostly (86 of land area) by coniferous taiga forests and fens, with little cultivated land.

Nearly 150 countries, representing 85 per cent of the world's forests, are participating in the nine regional processes.

(b) Three hundred votes shall be distributed among the producer members in accordance with their respective shares of the total tropical forest resources of all producer members and

Its land area is 69.61 urban, 12.8 rural and 17.57 comprising the Khan Yunis refugee camp.

The Andean region has less than 1 of the world s land area, but more than 15 of its plant life.

It is necessary to provide satellites with state of the art infrared instruments in order to detect and monitor the boundaries of forest fires with an area of more than 0.1 hectares as they start

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

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

Trentino has an area of 6,207 km2, most of it mountainous land (20 is over and 70 over 1,000 m) and covered by vast forests (50 of the territory).

The total number of participants from governments, the CPF, Intergovernmental Organizations, Non Governmental Organizations and Major Groups was 162 persons.

According to Brazil's environmental agency, 50 percent of the national park's 1,520 km² have burned, which represents 75,000 hectares of forest (roughly the size of New York City).

Although the hills represent about 80 90 of the territory Moldova, the forested area has decreased after 1800 due to intensive agriculture of the fertile land to about 12 .

As noted in paragraph 5 above, the proportion of land area covered by forests is one of the indicators associated with the Millennium Development Goal on environmental sustainability.

Agricultural area as a percentage of total land area also varied widely, ranging from 0.6 per cent for Jordan to 82 per cent for Turkmenistan.

By mid 2004, the total amount agricultural land losses in both the West Bank and Gaza was around 260 sq. km, representing at least 14.5 per cent of the total cultivated land in 2003.

Yet, despite such shortcomings, it is clear that areas we use for roads cannot be used for growing food, and that areas we use to build our houses takes away from forests.

Forests still covered 52.28 per cent of the territory of Myanmar, thanks to an efficient system of sustainable forest management and reforestation.

Most of these purchases have been made in Africa, with two thirds taking place in countries where hunger is widespread and institutions for establishing formal land ownership are often weak. The purchases in Africa alone amount to an area of agricultural land the size of Kenya.

More than eight out of ten ancient woodland sites in England and Wales are less than in area, only 501 exceed and a mere fourteen are larger than .

Under this programme, economic incentives are granted to encourage planting, resulting in the planting of an area of 39,948 hectares between 1997 and 2004.

Roughly the size of California, Japan will never have the geographical or demographic scale of China or the US.

Timber

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.

Its cloud forests and lowland rainforests are particularly rich.

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

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.

(d) Forests

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

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