U.N. seeks good examples of forest-management incentive
An initiative to reverse forest loss in Latin America and the Caribbean has been presented at a United Nations-sponsored meeting this week in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization said the initiative is needed because Latin America and the Caribbean have registered the world’s highest rate of forest loss over the past 15 years. From 1990-2005, the region’s forest area declined from 51 percent to 47 percent of total land area, primarily due to conversion of forest land to agriculture, the organization said.
The initiative calls for collecting case studies of successful forest management in Latin America and the Caribbean region so that such success can be replicated elsewhere. Government institutions, private sector companies, local communities and individuals are being invited to nominate the examples of successful forestry management programs, said the organization.