These
databases and maps provide a key resource on the state of the world's forests
and their protection and management.
Forest Programme Background
- Information on UNEP-WCMC's forest
mapping history, forest data harmonisation process, forest types and forest
classification system.
Current Forest Cover and Protection
- Forest Protection Analysis June 2000
(Global, Regional and Country level maps and statistics)
- Global Forest Cover Map
- Temperate and Boreal Forests
- Mountains and Mountain
Forests
- Tropical Montane
Cloud Forests
Original Forest Cover
- Map of the world's estimated original forest
cover between the end of the last ice age and the expansion of european
man - c.8,000 years ago.
Forest Management
- Global distribution map
and list
of forest sites certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.
Forest Biodiversity
- Tree Conservation Information Service,
including the database of globally threatened trees.