Safeguarding biodiversity has been one of the most important issues on the environmental and forest policies agenda since the 1990s.
Michael Lake, the director of the Royal Commonwealth Society, said: "The ecosystem-based management regime for British Columbia's Great Bear rainforest, developed in collaboration with First Nations, industry and environmental organisations, provides an example that other Commonwealth countries can look to when pursuing their own forest conservation agendas".
Second, we briefly explore land-use scenarios — based on realistic forest management agendas along the Wisconsin River (USA) — as one possible means of using applied science to assist local conservation efforts in prioritization of land parcels.
He said the federal government's rulings show connections between federal forest laws and Agenda 21.
"The new Brazilian law threatens to overturn years of work to defend the world's lungs from the loggers, while here in Durban what we thought could be a good deal has been gutted by technocrats with an agenda of forest destruction.
We urgently need to bring the ocean into the agenda alongside forests so that, as soon as possible, we can help the oceans to help us.
We conclude with some considerations of the policy agenda necessary to protect forest cover and forest biodiversity at a meaningful scale across the Amazonian biome.
Damrong Pidech, the director general of the Department of National Parks, Wildlife and Plant Conservation was quoted as saying: "We never seriously put forest rehabilitation on the national agenda before".
Four short years later, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change was signed in Rio, along with the Convention on Biological Diversity, an agreement to negotiate a Desertification Treaty, a set of Forest Principles, the Rio Declaration and Agenda 21, a UN action plan for sustainable development.
Measures to nurture and expand the world's forests come high on the agenda of environmental proposals.
