The World Conservation Monitoring Centre provides information services on conservation and sustainable use of the world's living resources, and helps others to develop information systems of their own.

         

        Forest Information Service

        WCMC's data holdings on forests, their diversity and conservation status worldwide come from a variety of national and international sources. The spatial data have formed the basis for a major statistical analysis of forest protection in the world, carried out in conjunction with CIFOR. To access this analysis and the regional maps (first produced for a WCMC/CIFOR CD-ROM), click here.

        For country-specific maps and some national statistics, choose the country from the list below. Not all countries are included here, and the user is referred to the WCMC/CIFOR study above for additional data.


        Select a country/area below and press the SUBMIT button

        OR


        Generalised World Forest Map (a gif file of 49k bytes will load)


        WCMC is working with IUFRO and other forest information organisations (e.g. FAO, WFI, EFI, CIFOR) towards the development of a more comprehensive Global Forest Information Service (GFIS) which will be available over the Web. To find out more about this service click here.

        For further information please write to:
        Information Office,
        World Conservation Monitoring Centre,
        219 Huntingdon Road,
        Cambridge CB3 0DL,
        United Kingdom.
        Tel: +44 1223 277314;
        Fax: +44 1223 277136.
        Email: info@wcmc.org.uk
        Document URL: http:// www.wcmc.org.uk /forest/data/index.html
        Revision date: 11-January-2000
        Current date: 21-January-2000

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