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Sustainable forest management
- Deforestation and climate changeIn the years between 2010 and 2014, deforestation in tropical regions released an average of 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide each year.
- Intact forest landscapeAn area must span at least 500 square kilometers to qualify as an intact forest landscape. This minimum size requirement ensures the ecosystem can support…
- Forest Landscape Integrity IndexThe Forest Landscape Integrity Index measures how much human activity has altered forest ecosystems. It treats integrity as the opposite of cumulative…