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The first FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment was published in 1948 and focused mostly on assessing the availability of timber. Since then, FAO has been monitoring the world's forests at five- to ten-year intervals, and has produced various regional and global surveys. [3] [4] [5]
[4] [5] [3] A 2017 study estimated 3 percent loss of forest between 1992 and 2001. [6] The 2005 (FAO) Global Forest Resources Assessment ranked the United States as seventh highest country losing its old-growth forests, a vast majority of which were removed prior to the 20th century. [3]
There are many various sets of C&I in the world that are used by particular regional SFM processes (e.g. FOREST EUROPE, Montréal Process), international organisations and their activities (e.g. FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment) or certification of forest management and forest products (e.g. Forest Stewardship Council, Programme for the ...
In collaboration with member countries, FAO carries out periodic global assessments of forest resources, which are made available through reports, publications and the FAO's Web site. [50] The Global Forest Resources Assessment [51] provides comprehensive reporting on forests worldwide every five years. FRA 2020 is the most recent global ...
The term environmental services was introduced in a 1970 report of the Study of Critical Environmental ... Text taken from Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 ...
Cambodia's primary forest cover fell dramatically from over 70% in 1970 at the end of the Vietnam War to just 3.1% in 2007, when less than 3,220 square kilometers of primary forest remained. [51] Deforestation is proceeding at an alarming rate: nearly 75% of forest loss has occurred since the end of 1990s.
[23] [24] According to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020 the global average annual deforested land in the 2015–2020 demi-decade was 10 million hectares and the average annual forest area net loss in the 2000–2010 decade was 4.7 million hectares. [14]
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