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.

Maintaining forest cover to meet present and future needs

Map showing forest cover in the Republic of Guatemala

Rehabilitation and conservation strategies for countries with low forest cover

Reverse the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, including protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation, and increase efforts to prevent forest degradation

Reaffirming the special needs and requirements of countries with fragile forest ecosystems, including those of low forest cover countries,

A forest may consist either of closed forest formations where trees of various storeys and undergrowth cover a high proportion of the ground or open forest.

The baseline assessment of tropical forest cover using AVHRR had been completed.

Agreed ad ref Reverse the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, including protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation, and increase efforts to prevent forest degradation

In Sri Lanka, one of the main areas of concern is forest cover.

So today we sit on a planet with only 50 of its forest cover remaining. And here s the part that should bring tears to your eyes we continue to lose more forest cover every year.

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

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.

China China has increased forest cover by more than 10 in the past 50 years.

A recently updated forest cover map of Sri Lanka shows that the territory covered by forest has decreased dramatically in recent decades, indicating the need to initiate forest preservation and afforestation strategies.

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

National data on land use and forest cover were often outdated or not in a suitable format.

They cover remote sensing applications in general as well as specialized topics such as sustainable development of natural resources and energy, natural resources and environment management, land cover mapping and land use planning.

Recognizing the special needs and requirements of countries with fragile ecosystems, including those of low forest cover countries,

Furthermore, the recommendations on sustainable forest management support the preliminary work on the Joint Approach to Low Forest Cover Countries (LFCCs) that is linked to decision 12 COP.6.

These technologies are applied to a wide range of activities, such as 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.

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

Web based tools for forest landscape restoration, including the web site of the of the Global Partnership within UNEP WCMC's Forest Restoration Information Service, as well as the Global Forest Information Service, and the Global Land Cover Facility, an institution that develops and distributes remotely sensed satellite data and products concerned with land cover at all scales.

FAO is currently preparing for a global forest resource assessment for the year 2000, FRA 2000, that will make extensive use of remote sensing and GIS, ranging from coarse resolution global coverage for forest cover mapping to high and very high resolution multi date satellite imagery for surveying global and regional forest and land cover changes.

The transport means must be covered with a fireproof cover resistant to natural factors

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.

There has been an increase in forest cover and in the size of areas dedicated to the protection of biodiversity.

Panellists discussed current trends gaps and challenges for sustainable forest management in the regions such as loss of forest cover, land degradation owing to high population density in forests, illegal logging and other corrupt activities inappropriate use of forest subsidies violent conflict in forested areas unsustainable management plans and inadequate forest certification efforts.

As a result of our conservation efforts, Bhutan has successfully maintained 72.5 per cent of its land area under forest cover.

Departments with the largest proportion of forest cover (70 per cent) are Petén (52 ), Alta Verapaz (10 ) and Izabal (7 ) (see map).

The aim of the studies is to monitor vegetation cover and forest fires to understand their effects on processes of global change.

Forest landscape restoration, for example, brings together PfAs relating to rehabilitation, restoration, low forest cover countries, participation, ecosystem and landscape considerations, environmental services, as well as economic, social and cultural aspects of forests, among others.

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

A number of participants noted that regional processes have a crucial role in establishing mechanisms for forest related issues, institutional frameworks and international arrangements on forests, such as the Tehran Process for Low Forest Cover Countries.

Carbon dioxide build up at the global level and the dwindling forest cover at the local and regional levels are of particular concern.

Data obtained from NOAA environmental satellites are operationally used to assess weather information and to monitor land cover and forest fires in Brazil.

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.

The IPF concluded that restoration of arid, semi arid and dry sub humid zones should not focus narrowly on afforestation, but deal with broader aspects of forest ecosystem management, including social and economic issues, and urged Low Forest Cover Countries (LFCCs) to promote regeneration and restoration of degraded forest areas, including the involvement of indigenous peoples, local communities, forest dwellers and others.

The standard resolution data enable monitoring on a weekly, monthly and yearly time scale of the cover of natural vegetation.

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.