Forestry

ISSUES

In 2000, 35% of woodland areas were used to produce timber. The surface area of productive plantations increased by 25 million hectares between 2000 and 2005. Each year, the demand for products made from wood increases by 2.7% and the forest surface area shrinks by 0.2% (7.9 million hectares). The felling of primary forests has led to their disappearance, as in Western Europe, or to their decline in the tropical countries of Africa, Latin America and Asia. The silvicultural sector as a whole provided employment to about 13 million people in 2000. Closely dependent on the human societies that practise it, silviculture has been regarded in recent years by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation as a potentially effective means of fighting against poverty, given that poverty is the main cause of deforestation in sub-Saharan Africa.

Practices
There are three types of practice in forest management and timber produ...

NEWS

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NORWAY - OSLO - La banque de semences végétales de l'archipel arctique du Svalbard, surnommée l'"Arche de Noé verte", a franchi...

FRANCE - PARIS - La France accueille ce jeudi à Paris une conférence internationale ministérielle sur le rôle des forêts dans la...

FRANCE - BORDEAUX - Les agents de l'Office national des forêts (ONF), appelés à la grève mercredi à l'appel de trois syndicats...

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DEBATES

Roads are ruining the rainforests

William F. Laurance

They are quite right. Roads are rainforest killers. Without rampant road expansion, tropical forests around the world would not...

Forest destruction: The road to ruin

Such environmental perils are increasingly common across...

Buying Wood: what is the best Certification?

Supported by Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the WWF,...

FOCUS

Wood energy

Wood accounts for 10% of world primary energy consumption but this is relatively little. Because, if it is exploited sustainably, - the opposite of what takes place during deforestation – unlike fossil...

VIDEOS

23/12/2009	Christopher Field tells us about how ecosystems can contribute to a...	27/10/2009	A Sumatra, la forêt est coupée pour laisser place à de grandes...
10/04/2009	Au port de la Rochelle, les membres du WWF conduisent une enquête sur...	23/02/2009	Floresteca, la plus grande plantation privée de tek au monde, est reconnue...

GREEN TIPS

Certified wood or nothing !

Certification is a means of being sure of where wood comes from thanks to a label which helps everyone spot a...

INDICATORS

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