Sustainable Forestry (1998, No. 16)

that NFAs urge their respective governments to make a commitment to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity, Framework Convention on Climate Change, and Statement of Forest Principles by:

• supporting programs in reforestation and rehabilitation of degraded forest lands that are relevant, environmentally sound, and culturally acceptable;
• requiring and enforcing the total protection of indigenous forests, or in those countries where this is impossible, the use of appropriate, environmentally sound, sustainable methods of harvesting wood while maintaining the forest base;
• pursuing through the Global Forest Dialogue the successful negotiation and implementation of the global forest convention, whose goal is the protection and sustainable development of the world’s forests.