4. Have forests been sustainably managed? 5. Have special forests been protected?
Almost all forestlands in the province are managed by 13 state entities, such as management boards of protection and special use forests, state forest enterprises, and private enterprises renting the land for agro-forestry production and ecotourism.
Several other groups bound up economically with forests; many monasteries had special rights in particular forests, for example for hunting or tree felling.
The Norman forests were subject to special royal jurisdiction; forest law was "harsh and arbitrary, a matter purely for the King's will".
We did not perform a special analysis for forest habitats, since Colchic forests are better studied, and since the role of forests in maintaining biodiversity is well established.
A special application concerning forest data and the distribution of forest tree species is available through the European Forest Genetic Resources Programme [38], which is a collaborative programme among European countries to promote conservation and sustainable use of forest genetic resources.
The area earmarked for the Olympics falls under a special category – a forest genetic resources preservation area – stipulated in South Korea's forest protection act, according to Youn Yeo-chang, professor of ecological economics and forestry policy at Seoul National University.
