Sustainable forest management

Forests provide vital resources to humanity, both directly in the form of timber and non-timber products and indirectly in the form of ecosystem services, such as biodiversity, carbon storage, and soil and watershed management.

Reforming forest tenure systems and securing forest ownership rights can significantly improve peoples’ livelihoods and enable them to gain income from forest products says a new United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) report .

Delegates meeting at the 16th UN Climate Change Conference held in Cancún, in December 2010, agreed on a framework for addressing the essential elements needed for comprehensive international action on climate change – the Cancún Agreements.

(openPR) - Forest Research Associates (FRA) supports Malaysia’s moves towards managed forestry. The Sabah region of Malaysia has almost 400,000 hectares of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) classified managed forests, making it the most sustainable region.

Seattle, WA, July 11, 2011 -- Forest Research Associates (FRA) supports Malaysia’s moves towards managed forestry. The Sabah region of Malaysia has almost 400,000 hectares of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) classified managed forests, making it the most sustainable region.

The proposed forest-carbon development project in the Arakan Forest Corridor initially was planned to participate in the carbon market under the United Nations Clean Development Mechanism afforestation/reforestation component, with a total area of 3000 ha.