Department of Economic and Social Affairs
Forests
UNFF News: UNFF10
April 2013
- UN forum endorses measures to improve sustainable forest management
- Amazon treaty body hailed as model for regional conservation efforts
- ‘Private sector potential funder’
- Indigenous activist fights to save his tribe and the Amazon rainforest
- African nations strive to stem desertification with a ‘Great Green Wall’
- US scientist committed to connecting people in cities to forests
- One woman’s heroic efforts to restore more than just Rwanda’s forests
- Participants at UN forum call for sustainable management of dry forests
- Young creative minds raise awareness of critical forest-related issues
- UN honours activists, filmmakers and photographers who inspire action
- Combating deforestation with Global Forest Watch 2.0
- Cross-cutting goal on natural resources
- Complex world of forests needs to be better understood
- UN officials stress forestry as key to economic development and sustainability
- UN forum kicks off in Istanbul with call to protect vital natural resource
- Economic Development Critical Issue for Forest Sustainability