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Forestry
Introduction
Forests cover about a third of the European Union land area and roughly 30% of the world's land area. For the past 20 years deforestation has continued ...
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Challenges
For a long time, forests have primarily been managed or established to supply wood and timber. During the past decades, the role of forests as a provider of a ...
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Benefits
While EU forest owners estimate their number at 16 million, about 350.000 people are directly employed in forest management. The main income from most forest holdings depends on ...
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Stakeholders
In the EU, the responsibility for forest policy falls on individual Member States. There is nevertheless a long tradition by the EU of supporting forest-related activities such as ...
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Best practices examples and guidance
The following are examples and links of ‘best practice’ and of private entrepreneurs marrying business interests with biodiversity concerns. They show ...
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How to integrate biodiversity into your business?
Many companies in the forest sector have made enormous progress in integrating environmental and biodiversity concerns into their operations. One of the best ...
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