Fire was the most common natural cause of forest destruction in Canada.

Tropical Forest Programme of Action (Ministry of the Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries)

Examples include natural fibres, organic agricultural products, recyclable and biodegradable products or sustainably produced forest products.

In addition, considerable efforts are being made to improve natural forest management and recover forest loss through the Forestry Incentives Programme of the National Forestry Institute (INAB).

To this end, forest restoration, the natural expansion of forest and the establishment of plantation forests have helped, to some extent, in countering degradation of forest ecosystems and to bring environmental, commercial and social benefits to society.

(c) Progressively reduce human activities, such as forest fires and the emission of harmful air pollutants caused inter alia by energy production, that substantially decrease the natural productivity of any forest and increase the risk of forest fires.

What I really did was I just followed nature, and nature doesn't know monocultures, but a natural forest is multilayered.

Forest applications include forest area estimation and mapping, forest monitoring, forest fire assessment and forest management.

Rights to indigenous land, forest and natural resources should be clearly identified in poverty reduction strategy papers documents, the role of indigenous peoples should be specified and the control by indigenous peoples over traditional land, forest, natural resources and decisions on the type of development should be acknowledged.

Action taken by concerned countries in regard to degraded lands and the promotion of natural and planted forests includes forest restoration through natural regeneration, the establishment of plantations and the implementation of agroforestry projects.

Forest products, coffee, palm oil, palm heart and natural rubber grown under ecologically sustainable agro forestry and forest management systems, processed and marketed through agro industries with farmer participation, have proved to be the most viable alternatives.

Approaches to forest landscape restoration were similar to those for other natural resource management, so therefore existing toolkits, structures etc. could be used.

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c) Countries with arid and semi arid areas, forested areas and areas liable to forest decay d) Countries with areas prone to natural disasters

9. Underlines the importance of sustainable forest management, the avoidance of deforestation, as well as the restoration of lost and degraded forest ecosystems of mountains in order to enhance the role of mountains as natural carbon and water regulators

In the forest. Always in the forest.

At the national level, important developments have included the formulation and implementation of national forest programmes and reforms in national legislation dealing with forests, land use and natural resources, as well as decentralization and the devolution of forest management to communities.

Rehabilitation and conservation strategies for countries with low forest cover Rehabilitation and restoration of degraded lands and promotion of natural and planed forests Maintaining forest cover to meet present and future needs Social and cultural, and economic, aspects of forests.

Make for the forest! To the forest, quick!

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Forest operations and the forest industry provide employment and income to millions of workers and forest dwellers.

(y) Enhance access by households, small scale forest owners, forest dependent local and indigenous communities, living in and outside forest areas, to forest resources and relevant markets in order to support livelihoods and income diversification from forest management, consistent with sustainable forest management.

Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

These technologies are applied to a wide range of activities, such as natural resources and environment monitoring, management and development, monitoring of natural resources and natural disasters, early warning for food security, land cover mapping and land management, forest planning and management, mapping of desertification, monitoring of cultural sites and pest disease control.

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C. Greater recognition of sustainable forest management and forest products trade

(j) Promoting improved forest practices through strengthening sustainable forest management standards

While forest biodiversity continues to decline as a result of deforestation, forest degradation and associated fragmentation of forest habitats, strong efforts are now being made to reverse this trend by restoring the forest functions in degraded forest landscapes.

With regard to the regeneration of the natural environment, the most important initiatives include reforestation, reclamation of degraded lands, protection of lowlands, the cutting of firebreaks and the development of forest stands with a view to the sustainable management of natural resources.

The owner of the forest also has a duty to take measures to reduce the possibility of the forest damage and restrict its distribution to monitor forest situation and to notify the State Forest Service of determined forest damage.

The study would follow at least one environmental catastrophe, chemical or oil spill, forest fire, manufacturing plant explosion or a natural disaster, which could be analysed using satellite imagery.

The management of key natural resources such as freshwater, mineral and forest based resources and energy will be particularly crucial in achieving the sustainability goals of the Habitat Agenda.

Forest fiscal reform provides opportunities to increase revenues generated from forest resources.

Pursuant to the Law on Forests natural persons shall have rights to access and freely move within a State or a local government forest, unless provided otherwise by legal acts.

The following shall not be regarded as forest tree covered areas apart from forests, the size of which does not exceed 0.1 hectare rows of trees of artificial or natural origin, the width of which is less than 20 metres orchards, parks, cemeteries and forest tree seed orchards.

It was recommended that forest landscape restoration be viewed as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself, and that approaches to forest landscape restoration were not different from those for other natural resource management so therefore existing toolkits, structures etc., need to be used.

Sustainable forest management

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