A new interactive online database provides access to many of the collected information in FAO’s comprehensive and newest Global Forest Resources Assessment (FRA 2010). The key module has options to exploit multiple output formats and generate simple diagrams, providing easier and more flexible access to FRA data.

“In times of world financial and economic crisis and globalization of economy, the role of state forest management is important for the sustainable development of society and the attainment of the goals formulated in United Nations Millennium Declaration.”

This is the opinion of Alexey Savinov, Head of the Russian Federal Forestry Agency who may be speaking on the opening session of the XIII World Forestry Congress in Argentina.

“We must always act now to curb climate change. We will do it if science, governments, businesses and communities come together and address this pressing issue.”

Read the whole interview with Balgis Osman-Elasha, Nobel Peace Prize laureate which includes theIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) who would be a keynote speaker on “Producing for development” on the XIII World Forestry Congress in Argentina.

“The continuing lack of forests and forest degradation pose a critical challenge. Research has demonstrated repeatedly that damage to forest ecosystems is essential and is affecting everyone.”

This is the opinion of Jan Heino, Assistant Director General of the Forestry Department on the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, under the auspices of which the sector Forestry Congress have been held every six years since 1926.

Buenos Aires, Argentina – “Work is under strategy to prepare for a brand new future as we’re on the dawn of a brand new era for forestry”, the XIII World Forestry Congress was told on Wednesday by Tim Rollinson, Director General of the united kingdom Forestry Commission, who chaired the Special Forum on Forests and Climate Change.

The Ethiopian Herald

26 November 2010, Rome – The Forestry Department of FAO yesterday received an amazing Spanish award in recognition of its outstanding merits in forest fire protection.