"forest heritage" is a correct and usable term in written English.
It refers to the natural and cultural heritage found within a forest ecosystem, including its unique plants, animals, geological features, and human history. Example: The government has taken steps to protect the country's forest heritage by implementing strict laws against deforestation and promoting sustainable forestry practices.
And when the forestry panel report eventually comes out this year, we'll need another big public effort to show the government we still care and make sure our forest heritage is not put at risk.
In my current job at the aid agency Cafod, I already see her true legacy: ordinary men and women in rural communities around the world, from Cambodia to Brazil, who take her as their inspiration when standing up against the logging companies, exposing collusion and corruption by the authorities, and protecting their forest heritage for future generations.
Among the non-specialised you see also some particular uses of DAs: reinforcing the rural economy of peri-urban areas and getting better governance for managing their relationship with the city (e.g. the rural district of Milan and the other three around the Milan metropolitan area); enhancing the environment and focusing on forest heritage in the Pistoia Mountains in Tuscany.
His final book, Our Forest Heritage, was published posthumously, and his innovations in forest management became industry standards.
Greens Leader Christine Milne tried with former leader Bob Brown to have the areas of the forest world heritage listed in 1989 but the pair's efforts were thwarted by then-Premier Michael Field who drew up conservation boundaries environmentalists have long criticised.
Globally, the Australian government's enthusiasm for supporting a return to Iraq before the US has defined its own policy position, its questionable approach to climate change and now its failed attempt to overturn the Tasmanian forest world heritage listing, has left Australia further diplomatically isolated.
Ministers also promised that "heritage forests" – notably the New Forest in Hampshire and the Forest of Dean in Gloucestershire – would be transferred to a conservation charity.
Writing in the Times on Thursday, the environment secretary Caroline Spelman said the government had no intention to "sell off heritage forests, such as the Forest of Dean or the New Forest, to whoever comes along waving the largest cheque book.
Sulman also queried the government's idea that heritage forests – such as the New Forest – could be taken over by taxpayer-funded charities.
What is "heritage" forest?
How will this new heritage forest charity work?
