UNEP-WCMC's Forest Programme produces integrated and accessible information
on the conservation of the world's forests and their biodiversity, as
well as providing support in managing this information.
Latest Products and Updates:
Our information resources and services are available
through the following sections:
- Data Sets and Maps - on forest
types, extent and distribution and background information on the Forest
Programme's forest mapping history, classification system and data harmonisation
process. Also, information on potential original forest cover,
current forest cover and protection (including a new global,
regional and country-level statistical analysis), forest management
and forest biodiversity.
- Analysis for Decision-making: Trends
and Indicators - analyses and syntheses of forest data to facilitate
policy and decision-making, including: priority areas for forest conservation
in relation to climate change (Forests in Flux); putting development
and forest conservation in context using poverty indicators (Poverty
Mapping - internet map server - coming soon); trends in forest area
and forest ecosystem status in the last 30 years (Living Planet Index);
conservation status of European forests (European Forest Gap Analysis
2000); and defining priority areas for forest restoration.
- Regions - access to information provided
on a regional basis.
- Information Management Support -
the Forest Programme's activities to strengthen national agencies capacities
to manage forest information, including developing a methodology for
designing and building forest information systems, through the Forest
Information Strategy (ForIS).
- Collaboration and Networking -
involvement in forest-related projects such as the Tropical Montane
Cloud Forest Initiative, the Global Trees Campaign and the
Global Forest Information Service (GFIS).
- Forest Web Links - links
to other forest-related organisations and agencies, many of whom are
close collaborators of UNEP-WCMC, as well as links to other useful websites.
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