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  1. International Year of Forests launched

    May 4, 2012 by utrucksales

    Millions of forest-dependent people play an important role in managing, conserving, and developing the world’s forests in a sustainable manner, however the outside world often underestimates their rights to apply and reap the benefits of local forest resources, in keeping with a brand new FAO report at the state of the world’s forests. FAO releases the report on the launch of the United Nations International Year of Forests in Ny.


  2. Rethinking the worth of planted forests

    May 1, 2012 by utrucksales

    With two-thirds of potential industrial wood production available from planted instead of naturally occuring forests, the contribution of planted forests has become increasingly critical to future wood supplies.


  3. UN Special interview of the month: FAO Forestry’s Assistant Director-General Eduardo Rojas-Briales

    March 19, 2012 by utrucksales

    UN Special interview of the month: FAO Forestrys Assistant Director-General Eduardo Rojas-Briales

    Interviewed by UN Special magazine, Eduardo Rojas-Briales discusses global forest challenges, the work priorities of FAO’s Forestry Department, the International Year of Forests 2011 and the major findings of the 2010 Global Forest Resource Assessment.



  4. International Year of Forests launched

    March 18, 2012 by utrucksales

    Millions of forest-dependent people play an important role in managing, conserving, and developing the world’s forests in a sustainable manner, however the outside world often underestimates their rights to make use of and have the benefit of local forest resources, in line with a brand new FAO report at the state of the world’s forests. FAO releases the report on the launch of the United Nations International Year of Forests in Big apple.


  5. 2011 State of the World’s Forests

    March 16, 2012 by utrucksales

    2011 State of the Worlds Forests

    The ninth biennial issue of State of the World’s Forests, published on the outset of 2011, the International Year of Forests, considers the theme ‘Changing pathways, changing lives: forests as multiple pathways to sustainable development’.



  6. Unasylva 237: International Year of Forests 2011 – Celebrate forests on daily basis

    March 15, 2012 by utrucksales

    Unasylva 237: International Year of Forests 2011 - Celebrate forests on daily basis

    FAO inaugurates the International Year of Forests with a unique photographic issue of Unasylva. Greater than 100 international days are celebrated all year long, in recognition of a limiteless range of issues, occupations, activities and cultural values important to humanity. This pretty compilation of imagery illustrates that forests have a link to nearly they all. While the international days are the thread that holds the gathering together, the organization is thematic, as opposed to chronological, the easier to catalogue forests’ place in lots of sectors. The problem expresses the theme of the international year – “Forests for people” – by showing how forests are important to almost every type of human activity.



  7. Increased forest threat from extreme weather

    February 21, 2012 by utrucksales

    Extreme weather events and natural disasters will pose an increasing threat to the world’s forests in coming years, requiring heightened cooperation between regions and countries, a global partnership for forest conservation and improvement warned today. The group’s warning came as FAO launched a brand new publication report on how ‘abiotic disturbances’ are impacting forest health.


  8. Better landscape management had to prevent forest fires

    February 18, 2012 by utrucksales

    Countries have to pay more attention to fireplace management on lands bordering forests so as to prevent the 95 percent of wildfires that originate from human activities in forests and adjacent areas, a world partnership for forests warned today.


  9. Ecotourism can play vital role in maintaining healthy forests

    February 14, 2012 by utrucksales

    The ongoing boom in ecotourism has the capability to avoid wasting endangered forests or destroy them, reckoning on how effectively tourism expansion is managed, a world partnership for forest conservation and improvement cautioned today because the world celebrates the arena Tourism Day and the International Year of Forests.


  10. As world goes urban, new discuss role of trees in cities

    February 11, 2012 by utrucksales

    Focused policies and investments geared toward protecting and managing forest and trees in and around cities are had to strengthen urban livelihoods and improve city environments, because the world becomes increasingly urbanized, said the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), of which FAO is a member, at the occasion of worldwide Habitat Day celebrated today.