Total forest area

The area of the district is .

The area of the district is .

Total area of the district's forests equals to 16,9 thousand ha.

Certified forest as a percentage of total forest area, by regions, 2005

The total area of forest is increasing, as is total timber production.

Certified forest area in the UNECE region 1999 2005

Certified forest area in the UNECE region, 1997 2005

Standard statistics based chapters are presented on sawn softwood, sawn hardwood, wood based panels, wood raw materials and pulp and paper.

Michael Adams, ITTO, Japan

The largest forest area reported was in Brazil with 560 million hectares, followed by China and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, each with more than 100 million hectares.

Notes The reference area is based on FAO's State of the World's Forest 2005 data for forest area, excluding other wooded land (North America including Canada and US only).

Martti Aarne, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Finland

Mykola Afanasyav, State Statistical Office, Ukraine

In Canada, 6,000 forest fires burned an area the size of Sicily.

Note If a forest area has not been certified to more than one standard, the respective area has been counted to each of certifying schemes involved hence the grand total of certified forest area in this graph shows a higher amount (approximately 1.5 million hectares more) than exists in reality.

Despite the efforts of the international forestry community, total forest area continues to decline in most regions of the world.

The graph therefore shows a higher amount of forest area certified than there exists in reality.

Highlights Certified forest area increased by more than one third during the last year, to 241 million hectares, mainly due to an increase in Canada by the Canadian Standards Association scheme.

The graph therefore shows a higher amount of total forest area certified than there exists in reality.

According to official data, 34 per cent of the land was covered in forest in 1991 and in 2004, the percentage had risen to 40 per cent.

Notes This graph shows all forests certified by major third party certification schemes listed below.

Notes This graph shows all forests certified by major third party certification schemes listed below.

The certified forest area endorsed by CSA in Canada has more than doubled over the last year.

The second proposed claim unit, in the amount of USD 17,254,532, was for costs incurred to implement a malaria control emergency campaign in Iran following the influx of refugees after 2 August 1990.

The world average of forest area is 26 whereas Bangladesh has got only 18 percent .

Most recently, the Canadian national scheme, CSA, was endorsed, which means in practice that products from its 63.7 million hectares of certified forest area can be sold with reference to PEFC as well.

Around 20 million years ago, during the Miocene Period, some of Earth's environments were changing, forests and swamps were receding as more plains were developed.

Most Parties provided detailed information on resources, policies and institutions in the energy sector, and others classified end use consumption on the basis of energy carriers such as electricity and heat.

Forest conservation and protection of unique types of forests and fragile ecosystems

If these trends continue, by 2015 forested areas will account for approximately 33 per cent of the national territory, which is a worrying prospect.

This figure counts forest areas approved by two different certification systems only once.

Deforestation in the Amazon.

H. Illegal logging

What happened?

The destruction of the forests continues mercilessly.

(59) Conservation of existing forests

Half of the world's forests have vanished.

The next big issue, deforestation.

The result is that forests are shrinking and water tables falling and, in consequence, there is escalating desertification and increased frequency and intensity of droughts.

Deforestation has proceeded to the extent that not many SIDS have much natural forest left.

If we are actually serious about grand promises to keep global temperature rises below 2ºC, we obviously need to find ways of making this cheaper.

One of these is protecting forests, since deforestation accounts for 17 of emissions.

This area is gradually being deforested.

Phased approach for tropical forests