Sustainable forestry paramount for biodiversity conservation: FAO
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- 11 Oct 2022
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Forests that are managed primarily for economic benefits are critical for biodiversity conservation, a United Nations report said.
Mainstreaming biodiversity in such ‘production forests’ is paramount, said Mainstreaming biodiversity in forestry by the UN body Food and Agriculture Organization.
Embedding biodiversity considerations into policies, strategies and practices of key public and private actors to promote the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources is called ‘mainstreaming biodiversity’.
Weak governance and law enforcement are the biggest stumbling blocks behind biodiversity conservation in protected areas, the report found.
he role of forests in maintaining biodiversity is explicitly recognised by the United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests 2017–2030. In 2019, FAO adopted the Strategy on Mainstreaming Biodiversity across Agricultural Sectors.
Forests cover 31 per cent of the world’s land surface, store an estimated 296 gigatonnes of carbon and are home to most of the world’s terrestrial biodiversity, a press release shared by FAO stated.
FAO’s forestry statutory body, Committee on Forestry (COFO), had asked FAO to review biodiversity mainstreaming in forestry in its 25th session in 2020. It had asked the UN body to share good practices on solutions that balance conservation and sustainable use of forest biodiversity. Read More...
