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General Information
· In addition to the links below, a great deal of general information on forests is
available from a range of organizations at the Forest Institutions page.
Forest-related events @ UNDESA
Deforestation in selected countries @ Mongabay
Forest biome @ EoE
Forest Landscape Integrity Index
Forests Make us Healthier Toolkit @ Northeast Forest Network
Global Forest Resources Assessment @ FAO
InfoFLR (Forest Landscape Restoration) @ IUCN
News
Periodicals
✔︎Info@⇾Forestry publications @ ThoughtCo.
Frontiers in Forests and Global Change
Forest education
If trees could talk: Middle school curriculum (Forest History Society)
International agreements & declarations
· Also see REDD+ at Forest & climate change page
1977 UN General Assembly Plan of Action to Combat Desertification
· Full title: Non-legally binding authoritative statement of principles for a global consensus on the
management, conservation and sustainable development of all types of forests
2011 Bonn Challenge
· a global effort to restore 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land by 2020 and 350
million hectares by 2030
2015 Paris Climate Agreement article 5 on Forests
· To conserve and enhance carbon sinks including forests
2014 New York Declaration on Forests
· Goal 1 is to at least halve the rate of loss of natural forests globally by 2020 (relative to 2010)
2021 Glasgow Forest Declaration
Certification, supply chain & industry-focused sustainability
institutions & initiatives
Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade (FLEGT)
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
· Oversees and encourages sustainably-managed forestry by businesses
Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC)
Sustainable Procurement of Forest Products @ WRI & WBCSD
Forest biome: Differentiation
WWF differentiation between tropical, subtropical, temperate & boreal forests
Forest biome: Boreal/taiga
Alaska Peninsula Montane Taiga
Boreal biome @ Oxford Bibliographies
Boreal Forest Initiative @ Ducks Unlimited
Boreal forests @ Boreal Songbird Initiative
Boreal Leadership Council [Canada]
Boreal forests @ Regeneration.org
Central Canadian Shield Forests
International Boreal Conservation Campaign (IBCC)
Boreal Conservation website
Canadian Boreal Conservation Framework
Boreal Songbird Initiative website
Pew Charitable Trusts website
International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA)
Save the Canadian Boreal @ NRDC
Taiga biome @ Blue Planet Biomes
Taiga Rescue Network (TRN)
· Defunct: see TRN Wikipedia page
Forest biome: Temperate/deciduous
Northeast Asian Deciduous Forest
Forest biome: Tropical
• See "Transborder region: Amazonia" at Latin & South America page
Aaron Stone of Brandeis University contributed to this page in 2018.
Forests
Four key information resources:
· FAO State of the World's Forests (SOFO)
Contents of this page:
· News
· International agreements on forests
· Certificaton & industry-focused sustainability institutions & initiatives
~ Tropical
Subpages:
· Forests, climate change & REDD+
Also see:
· Forest bathing at Environmental psychology, nature therapy & climate anxiety
· Plant taxa for specific arboreal taxonomic information (eg, species & varieties) as well as tree identification.
For location-specific forest information, see:
· GeoGuide
· Urban areas for information on urban forests
