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Mar 19, 2021 · Why we need to protect forests. Here’s eight reasons the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization says we need to protect forests. 1. Healthy forests mean healthy people. Forests provide people with an array of resources including fresh air, clean water and nutritious foods. Many also associate them with physical recreation and good mental ...
Mar 3, 2021 · With that in mind, here are five facts about the roles forests play in sustaining the health of people and the planet. 1. Primary forest is still disappearing. Globally, a UK-sized area of tropical forest was lost every year between 2014 and 2018, on average, according to a report from the New York Declaration on Forests (NYDF).
Feb 5, 2019 · Mangroves provide valuable protection for communities at risk from sea-level rises and severe weather events caused by climate change. 2. They are carbon sinks. Coastal forests help the fight against global warming by removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, most of which is stored within the plant. When mangrove tree roots, branches and ...
Mar 10, 2016 · This is why we indigenous people are on the frontline of nature conservation. Preserving the balance of the ecosystem has always been the indigenous way of life. Even in the tropical forests of Africa,where some communities use wood products to build settlements, they do so without negatively affecting the nature around them.
Jan 22, 2018 · Goods and services provided by forests also make important contributions toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Although wild products provided by the forest are significant source of income and nutrition, invisible ecosystem services that forests provide to local communities and to national economies can be more important.
Jan 16, 2015 · Jan 16, 2015. Russia’s forests may lose their power to help curb global warming without stronger domestic protection and a place in a new international climate change deal, scientists have warned. Russia has 19 percent of world forest reserves by surface area. But experts say the U.N. process drafting the climate change pact, due to be agreed ...
Mar 31, 2016 · report flag outlined. forests are important for the poor people because; in forest the poor people will cultivate for their daily needs. they will get medicienes and timber from the forest. examples are. 1)during british period poor peoples lived in the forest. 2)poor peoples get wood , timber, medicienes and the killed the animals for their meat.
Nov 29, 2023 · The Mangrove Breakthrough aims to restore half of these losses totalling 409,150 hectares by 2030 (~51,000 hectares per year). 3. Ensure long-term protection is increased from 40% to 80% of remaining mangroves. While 41% of the world's mangroves lie in protected areas, the Mangrove Breakthrough seeks to protect an additional 6,100,000 hectares.
Mar 21, 2019 · Our forests are critical to the fight against climate change, as well as to the protection of biodiversity and the ability to feed our global population. But the efforts to halt deforestation have not proved anywhere near as effective as had been hoped. International Day of Forests on 21 March is an opportunity to galvanize more collective ...
May 22, 2020 · 1. Biodiversity ensures health and food security. Biodiversity underpins global nutrition and food security. Millions of species work together to provide us with a large array of fruits, vegetables and animal products essential to a healthy, balanced diet – but they are increasingly under threat.
