"maintain forests" is a grammatically correct and commonly used phrase in written English.
It can be used as a clause in a sentence, typically as a verb phrase, to indicate the action of preserving and sustaining the health and growth of forests. Example: It is crucial for government agencies to actively maintain forests to prevent deforestation and ensure the survival of diverse ecosystems.
The needle-shaped leaves of conifers are efficient fog droplet collectors, and fog drip in mountainous regions may supply enough water to maintain forests.
In the wider landscape, more creative market mechanisms are emerging, such as payment for ecosystem services: power companies with hydroelectric stations are paying farmers and communities to maintain forests and soil upstream in Costa Rica and Kenya, for example.
Government representatives at the meeting will consider adopting the "Redd" mechanism to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries, which is based on the idea that richer countries could offset their emissions by paying to maintain forests in tropical regions.
Governments need adequate monitoring capacity when implementing payment for ecosystem services programs, and developed countries willing to finance these kinds of policies in the context of a global agreement will ask that the efforts made to maintain forests be verifiable.
This program offers a close to best case scenario for a land titling program to reduce deforestation because of colonization pressure, availability of payments when titled communities maintain forests, and limited opportunities for commercial agriculture.
Brian Nowicki of the Center for Biological Diversity challenged Brown's connection between dead trees and wildfire risk, emphasizing the need to maintain forests for wildlife habitat.
To the contrary, roads are essential to give access to managers to maintain forest health and to allow for recreational uses.
The nations of the region, with only few exceptions, have become aware of the need to maintain forest cover not only to prevent soil erosion but to preserve the diversity of flora and fauna.
This may be evidence for biomass burning by humans, presumably to maintain forest-edge habitats.
In some regions frequent fires maintain forest stands in a subclimax stage of development.
Fragments of this size largely fail as remnants intended to maintain forest interior conditions and late-successional forest structure.
