Contents 111 Acknowledgements Summary PART THE SITUATION AND DEVELOPMENTS IN THE FOREST SECTO Forest resources Global forest resources assessment gricultural expansion and deforestation Mangrove conversion and conservation Management, conservation and sustainable development of forests Role of planted trees in developing countries with low forest cover findings from six case studies Mountain forests and sustainable mountain development Forests and wooded lands in the mediterranean basin Coordinated responses to fighting forest fires Hunting wild animals for meat: a threat to sustainability Recent developments in forests and climate change Institutional framework Forestry education: coping with new demands 32 Decentralization of public administration of forests Sharing benefits from forests The fight against illegal logging and illegal trade Improving cross-sectoral linkages with regard to forests International policy dialogue Collaborative Partnership on Forests International policy debate on forests and forest biological Update on forest-related international conventions and National Forest Programme Facility World Summit on Sustainable Developmentv iii Foreword vii Acknowledgements viii Summary _______________________________ I PART_______________________________ SECTOR FOREST THE IN DEVELOPMENTS AND SITUATION THE 1 resources Forest 1 Assessment Resources Forest Global 3 deforestation and expansion Agricultural 4 conservation and conversion Mangrove 12 forests of development sustainable and conservation, Management :cover forest low with countries developing in trees planted of Role 12 studies case six from findings 20 development mountain sustainable and forests Mountain 22 basin Mediterranean the in lands wooded and Forests 23 fires forest fighting to responses Coordinated 24 sustainability to threat a: meat for animals wild Hunting 25 change climate and forests in developments Recent 32 framework Institutional 32 demands new with coping: education Forestry 33 forests of administration public of Decentralization 34 forests from benefits Sharing 36 trade illegal and logging illegal against fight The 38 forests to regard with linkages sectoral-cross Improving 42 dialogue policy International 42 Forests on Forum Nations United 44 Forests on Partnership Collaborative biological forest and forests on debate policy International 45 diversity and conventions international related-forest on Update 49 agreements 55 Facility Programme Forest National 56 Development Sustainable on Summit World Contents