Sustainable Forest Management, Biodiversity and Livelihoods: a good Practice Guide

Forestry, biodiversity, and poverty reduction

• INTRODUCTION

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• Forests are amongst the most biologically-rich terrestrial systems.
• Today, it is understood that forest biodiversity underpins a wide ranges of goods and services for human well-being:
• storage and purification of drinking water
• mitigation of natural disasters such as droughts and floods
• storage of carbon and regulation of climate
• provision of food, rainfall, and a vast array of goods for medicinal, cultural and spiritual purposes.
• Conserving forest biodiversity is a prerequisite for the long-term and broad flow of forest ecosystem services.
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