Forests are an integral part of global sustainable development. According to World Bank estimates, more than 1.6 billion people depend on forests for their livelihoods with some 300 million live in them. The forest product industry is a source of economic growth and employment, with global forest products traded internationally is estimated at $327 billion.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that every year 130,000 km² of the world's forests are lost due to deforestation. Conversion to agricultural land, unsustainable harvesting of timber, unsound land management practices, and creation of human settlements are the most common reasons for this loss of forested areas.
The forests skin is strong but also very fragile to environmental influences such as climate change
if the forest changes, animals disappear or extinct...
... but the forest also has a high potential to recapture
Structure and order is common in the nature. A strictly life hierarchy powered by the evolution, created various forms, abilities and characters.
Forest have a high potential to mitigate climate change effects. Not only for reducing carbon. There also exist various species with a high adoptional range for dry seasons. The Pinus canariensis on the Canary Islands for example, is able to draw water out of the atmosphäre by it´s conifer leafs. Giving it the possibility to survive in dry areas.
The species on our planet or countless yet, nobody knows how much will survive in the future.
Old dead trees are not only eye candies, they have direct influence on the variety of the species in the forest and are therefore important for a balanced life-circle .
For water storage and filter function forest are indispensable.
Of cause human kind need the forests to have a stable environment it also should be possible to use the wood without destroying the forest. A sustainable way has to be identified and strictly followed to give us the opportunity to survive even in times of climate change.
