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Forest Landscape Integrity Index 2019 map of the Earth. 0 = Most modification; 10= Least. The Forest Landscape Integrity Index (FLII) is an annual global index of forest condition measured by degree of anthropogenic modification.
The Global Forest Information Service (GFIS) was an initiative of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) and was a collaborative effort of 14 major forest-related international organizations, institutions and convention secretariat, aiming to maximize the value of all forest information resources and providers worldwide through the sharing of forest-related information through a single ...
The UN Strategic Plan for Forests 2017 - 2030 features a set of six Global Forest Goals and 26 associated targets to be reached by 2030. One important target is to increase forest area by three percent worldwide by 2030. [21] The Global Forest Goals Report 2021 drew on quantitative and bio-physical data primarily from FRA 2020. [22]
The forest product industry is a source of economic growth and employment, with global forest products traded internationally is estimated at $327 billion. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that every year 130,000 km 2 of the world's forests are lost due to deforestation. Conversion to agricultural land, unsustainable ...
The World Forestry Congress (WFC) is the largest and most significant gathering of the world's forestry sector and it has been held every six years since 1926 under the auspices of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, organized by the government of the host country. [1]
Faustmann's Formula - Firewood - Forbidden Forest - Forest dwellers - Forest fire - Forest farming, the ecosystem approach to forest management - Forest fragmentation - Forest governance - Forest history - Forest interpretation - Forest management - Forest policy - Forest politics - Forest Principles - Forest produce - Forest protection - Forest ranger - Forest transition - Forester - Forestry ...
In the narrow sense of the terms, wood, forest, forestry and timber/lumber industry appear to point to different sectors, in the industrialized, internationalized world, there is a tendency toward huge integrated businesses that cover the complete spectrum from silviculture and forestry in private primary or secondary forests or plantations via the logging process up to wood processing and ...
Many joint activities and partnership agreements occur with national governments, regional and global organizations and NGOs. For example, IUFRO is a Scientific Union Member of the International Council for Science (ICSU), [5] a member of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), and an observer organization in the United Nations Forum on Forests, the Convention on Biological Diversity ...