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Forest Protection

Forest protection aims to preserve threatened forests from unsustainable practices like aggressive farming and logging as well as urban sprawl. Key methods include enforcing laws on purchased forests, monitoring forest sites, certifying sustainable wood, and engaging stakeholders. The document then discusses the International Year of Forests in 2011 and highlights the 10 most threatened forest hotspots globally based on habitat loss and high numbers of endemic plant species. These forests support close to one billion people but have lost over 90% of their original habitat. The Philippines is included as the 4th most threatened hotspot with only 7% of forest remaining. The conclusion calls for youth to actively participate in environmental programs to help protect forests for future generations.

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Forest Protection

Forest protection aims to preserve threatened forests from unsustainable practices like aggressive farming and logging as well as urban sprawl. Key methods include enforcing laws on purchased forests, monitoring forest sites, certifying sustainable wood, and engaging stakeholders. The document then discusses the International Year of Forests in 2011 and highlights the 10 most threatened forest hotspots globally based on habitat loss and high numbers of endemic plant species. These forests support close to one billion people but have lost over 90% of their original habitat. The Philippines is included as the 4th most threatened hotspot with only 7% of forest remaining. The conclusion calls for youth to actively participate in environmental programs to help protect forests for future generations.

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FOREST PROTECTION

AND CONSERVATION
Forest protection is
a general term
describing methods
to preserve or
improve a forest
threatened or
affected by abuse.
The types of abuse that forest
protection seeks to prevent
include:
1. Aggressive or unsustainable
farming and logging

2. Expanding city development


caused by population explosion
and the resulting urban sprawl
Forest protection methods:
1. enforcement of laws regarding
purchased forest
2. On site monitoring
3. trade certified wood
4. Working with communities,
government agencies, NGOs and
businesses, IUCN’s Forest
Conservation Programme
5. dialogue involving the
various stakeholders about the
approach toward developing
forestry policy at the national
and local levels
2/9/2011
The world observes the International Year
of Forests in 2011:

according to the United Nations, it is


hoped that the occasion would serve as
an effective “global platform to
celebrate people’s action to sustainably
manage the world’s forests.”
To mark the occasion
Conservation International,
which works in nearly 40
countries around the world,
highlighted the world’s ten
most at-risk forested hotspots
World’s 10 Most Threatened Forest Hotspots
Hotspot Remaining Predominant Vegetation Type
habitat
1 Indo-Burma (Asia-Pacific) 5% Tropical, Subtropical Moist Broadleaf
Forests
2 New Caledonia (Asia- 5% Tropical, Subtropical Moist Broadleaf
Pacific) Forests
3 Sundaland (Asia-Pacific) 7% Tropical, Subtropical Moist Broadleaf
Forests
4 Philippines (Asia-Pacific) 7% Tropical, Subtropical Moist Broadleaf
Forests
5 Atlantic Forest (South 8% Tropical, Subtropical Moist Broadleaf
America) Forests
6 Mountains of Southwest 8% Temperate Coniferous Forests
China (Asia-Pacific)
7 California Floristic 10% Tropical, Subtropical Dry Broadleaf
Province (North America) Forests
8 Coastal Forests of 10% Tropical, Subtropical Moist Broadleaf
Eastern Africa (Africa) Forests
9 Madagascar & Indian 10% Tropical, Subtropical Moist Broadleaf
Ocean Islands (Africa) Forests
10 Eastern Afromontane 11% Tropical, Subtropical Moist Broadleaf
(Africa) Forests; Montane Grasslands and
Shrublands
These hotspots are those that have all
lost 90% or more of their original
habitat and each one harbors at least
1,500 endemic plant species (species
found nowhere else in the world).

If those forested habitats are lost, the


endemic species are also lost forever.
These forests potentially support
the lives of close to one billion
people who live in or around
them, and directly or indirectly
depend on the natural resources.
With an estimated seven
percent of remaining original
forest, the Philippines comes
fourth in the list, behind Indo-
Burma, New Caledonia, and
Sundaland, all located in the
Asia Pacific region.
So……?

What shall we
do?
The Youth is the Hope
of the Fatherland
Actively participate in
various environmental
programs and activities
Create a spirit of
belongingness
This we know: the earth
does not belong to man,
man belongs to the
earth…All things are
connected like the blood
that unites one
family…Whatever befalls
the earth, befalls the sons
of the earth. Man did not
weave the web of life, he is
merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the
web, he does to himself.
CHIEF SEATTLE stated in his letter to US
Pres. Franklin Pierce in 1885-

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