Forest protection

In German-speaking countries, forest protection would focus on the biotic and abiotic factors that are non-crime related.

As a result, reading English literature can be problematic for non-experts due to localization and conflation of meanings.

In the increasingly dangerous South America, home of major rainforests, officials of the Brazilian National Agency for the Environment (IBAMA) have recently been shot during their routine duties.

[1] One simple type of forest protection is land acquisition by the state or conservation organisations in order to secure it, or for reforestation / afforestation.

Even in the United States, these measures sometimes do not suffice because arson can burn a forest to the ground, leaving burnt areas free for different use.

[3] Another issue about living on purchased forest-land is that there may not be a suitable site for a standard home without clearing land, which defies the purpose of protection.

Results have policy relevance in terms of the target of the Convention on Biological Diversity, reconfirmed in 2008, to conserve in an effective manner that “at least 10% of each of the world’s forest types”.