Mrs. Greenbury said that Asia Pulp did not use wood from forests it deemed to be of "high conservation value," which included deep peat and major endangered-species habitats.
These countries hold large areas of high conservation value forests and large populations of White-backed Woodpecker.
Old growth forests in the Tarkine could be logged by private companies under plans being considered by the Tasmanian government to reverse a moratorium on harvesting 400,000ha of high conservation value forests.
Co-benefit dimensions cover thematic areas such as the retention of high conservation value forests and biodiversity and the provision of social benefits such as maintenance of employment or cultural services.
Hence, recent human activities in the forest margin ecotone negatively affected species of high conservation value.
This is as good a time as any, to remind the folks at the MSPO that the true sustainability of palm oil operations must not focus overly on the protection of high conservation value or high carbon stock forests.
For instance, in Tanzania Unliever has concentrated on managing large areas of high conservation value in the Eastern Arc forest: including mapping, monitoring, identifying key locations, and working with villagers to reduce the negative impacts of gathering food, medicine, building poles and firewood from forest (Business.2010, 2007).
Of the nearly 50 million acres of privately held forest land remaining in the U.S., Selzer said roughly 10percentt is of "high conservation value," meaning it provides habitats to endangered species or offers special geological features.
Complete removal of ungulates rather than simply reducing their densities may be required for recovery in heavily browsed temperate forests, but since this is only feasible at small spatial scales, management efforts must target sites of high conservation value.
But if the crops are grown in areas of high conservation value, and their production results in the cutting down of forest or in bringing pristine land under agricultural production, this could swing the balance the other way and result in a net increase in greenhouse gases.
