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Under the centralised forest management regime of Ferdinand Marcos between 1970 and 1980, annual deforestation was particularly high at 300,000 hectares. [5] As a result of this deforestation, the Philippines had one of the highest forest losses in the Asia-Pacific region at the turn of the century. [12]
While Brazil is the global leader in liquid biofuels with a total of 845,000 jobs, it also has 41,000 jobs in solar, 36,000 jobs in wind, and 12,000 jobs in small hydro power. [59] A report produced by IRENA in 2018 showed Brazil to have the largest liquid biofuel workforce, [ 60 ] an 893,000 workers in the overall renewable energy industry. [ 60 ]
All people depend upon forests and their biodiversity, some more than others. [6] Forestry is an important economic segment in various industrial countries, [7] as forests provide more than 86 million green jobs and support the livelihoods of many more people. [6]
Logs from a community forest in Oaxaca, Mexico. Community forestry is a branch of forestry that deals with the communal management of forests for generating income from timber and non-timber forest products on one hand, and managing for ecosystem services such as watershed conservation, carbon sequestration and aesthetic values on the other hand.
A conservation officer is a law enforcement officer who protects wildlife and the environment. A conservation officer may also be referred to as an environmental technician / technologist , game warden , park ranger , forest watcher , forest guard , forester , gamekeeper , investigator , wilderness officer , wildlife officer , or wildlife trooper .
[72]: 183 The Natural Forest Protection Program called for major reductions in timber harvest, forest conservation, and instituted logging bans in most of Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and Tibet. [ 72 ] : 183 The program provided for alternative employment opportunities for former logging industry workers, including hiring them for reforestation work.
The Forest Products Research and Development Institute, founded as the Forest Products Laboratory under the Bureau of Forestry in 1954, is hosted in the campus. Managed by the Department of Science and Technology of the government of the Philippines , [ 60 ] it is engaged in paper science [ 61 ] and bioenergy research, [ 62 ] among others.
An initial 39,304 hectares (97,120 acres) of the Cordillera Central Forest Reserve was set aside for water resource protection and conservation by the Ministry of Natural Resources–Bureau of Forest Development, with 9,550 hectares (23,600 acres) reserved for the multi-purpose dam project of the National Power Corporation approved by President ...