Datasets and Maps

© 2000 Topham Picturepoint / UNEP / Bo L. ChristiansenThese databases and maps provide a key resource on the state of the world's forests and their protection and management.

  • Forest Programme Background

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    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

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    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

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    Tree Conservation Information Service, including the database of globally threatened trees.

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    Document URL: http://www.unep-wcmc.org /forest/datasets_maps.htm
    Revision date:
    09 January 2001 | Current date: 22 March 2001