The world's forests continue to shrink as populations increase and forest land is converted to agriculture and other uses, but over the past 25 years the rate of net global deforestation has slowed down by more than 50 percent, FAO said in a report published today. Some 129 million hectares of forest - an area almost equivalent in size to South Africa - have been lost since 1990, according to FAO's most comprehensive forest review to date, The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2015. It noted however, that an increasing amount of forest areas have come under protection while more countries are improving forest management. This is often done through legislation and includes the measuring and monitoring of forest resources and a greater involvement of local communities in planning and in developing policies.
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Links:
[1] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/reports-documents/global-forest-resources-assessment-2015
[2] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/publisher/fao
[3] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-resources
[4] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-management
[5] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/land-degradation
[6] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biodiversity
[7] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/forest-conservation
[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/protected-area-conservation
[9] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/biomass
[10] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/gdp
[11] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/india
[12] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/global
[13] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/small-island-developing-states-sids
[14] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/ecosystem-services
[15] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/deforestation
