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INTERGOVERNMENTAL WORKING GROUP ON FORESTS (IWGF) REPORT

The enhancement of forest and tree cover

There is already serious concern about decline in the quantity and quality of forests. Yet, as populations increase and needs and expectations grow, even more demands will be made upon forest (and trees outside the forest) which can only be satisfied by increasing quantity and improving quality . The balance between the resource and the demands made upon it differ from country to country and even within a single country. These will change as economic and social development progresses. Each country should take whatever measures are needed to enhance its resource of forests and trees and should set its own targets for forest area and for improvement of quality . This may best be done by the formulation and implementation of national forestry action programmes and/or plans (NFAP), prepared in the context of integrated land use planning. There are clear linkages with possible actions under the Convention on Combatting Desertification and the Framework Convention on Climate Change.