Forest is known to be a great reservoir of CO2 which is one of the major cause of Global warming. It is becoming worrisome on the rate at which forest are been destroyed globally.
How can the Forest Resesources be best sustained and managed?
Basically, one may raise a number of scientifically constructed sustainable forest management practices. However, participation of the local community to own their forests and carbon credits are the actually working ones. If you train, inform and create sense of ownership in the community, they can effectively sustain their forests. You can't sustain forests by guards, fencing, or national laws. Community bylaws and consensus is more effective. But communities entitled to manage forests need some incentive to make the sense of ownership more strong. That is through CARBON CREDIT. It is giving incentive to the community for the increment in forest biomass and the amount of carbon trapped by the forest.
Ecosystem approach.........The two concepts, sustainable forest management and the ecosystem approach, aim at promoting conservation and management practices which are environmentally, socially and economically sustainable , and which generate and maintain benefits for both present and future generations. Sustainable forest management has to keep the balance between three main pillars: ecological, economic and socio - cultural. Successfully achieving sustainable forest management will provide integrated benefits to all, ranging from safeguarding local livelihoods to protecting the biodiversity and ecosystems provided by forest, reducing rural poverty and mitigating some of the effects of climate change. For further details consult https;//www.en.m.wikipedia.org
The field of forestry developed in part due to the effects and losses to forest extent and health through lack of forest management, over harvest, poor stewardship practices leading to site losses, severe erosion, etc. Various countries such as Germany became alarmed as to losses in forests, and these early practices extended to USA and other developing countries, where logging companies would basically clear cut, leave and move on, trying to extract maximum value in short time, especially where forests and land ownerships were extensive tracts. You can read about the early US Forest Service and how it developed during the timing of President Teddy Roosevelt and first USFS Chief Forester Gifford Pinchot in various books. You might also be interested in books such as “The Big Burn” about early USFS period. The US national forests are managed to a great extent considering sustainable yield, watersheds, ecosystems, and might be a useful starting point to consider laws, regulations, practices, etc. Some of the USFS researchers have studied carbon and other cycles.
Birhanu Iticha Sylvester Peter Antai William F. Hansen thank you for the enlightenment and comments.
It therefore means that Forest management and sustainability is the responsibility of both Government and Community?
Besides efforts to conserve, make the forest an object that has added value, namely recreation areas, natural schools and research locations for forest biota.
Normality of forest is prerequisite for sustainability. The principle of trinity normal growing stock, normal age series or age gradations and normal increment needs to be first meet out for timber species. Other factors like harvesting schedule and low impact logging will add up sustainable utilization.
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Forest resources' roles cannot be overemphasized. Forests management therefore needs collaborative efforts from all stakeholders for sustainability to be achieved
Dear Colleagues and Friends from RG,
Sustainable management of the forest ecosystem should be carried out in such a way that the regenerated forest ecosystems are characterized by high natural biodiversity. High natural biodiversity should be achieved in such a way that the species composition of the flora and fauna of the ecosystem is as diverse as possible and similar to natural positions of plant and forest formations that existed in a specific area in the past before their civilization degradation. Sustainable management of the forest ecosystem in addition to high biodiversity, diversity of ecologically interacting different species of flora and fauna should be carried out in accordance with the following principles of sustainable ecological development:
1. Reconstruction, rehabilitation of ecosystems in such a way that they are close to natural plant formations, including forest formations that existed hundreds of years ago in a given area and were suitably adapted to the current climate conditions.
2. Modern drainage should be used, taking into account rainwater collection to reduce the risk of drought and the transformation of forest formations into savannas and deserts.
3. The use of chemical plant protection products to reduce the pollution of the reconstructed natural environment and to reduce interference in the species composition of the forest ecosystem, which is being rebuilt in such a way as to have high biodiversity, should be reduced to the necessary minimum.
4. Modern forest ecosystem protection systems should be applied against the more and more often occurring forest fires, which are the result of a progressing global warming process.
5. The forest ecosystem protection system should be used the same as it is used for national parks to reduce human interference in the functioning of the rebuilt forest ecosystem formation.
Do you agree with me on the above matter?
Please reply.
I invite you to discussion and scientific cooperation.
Thank you very much.
Best wishes.
Dariusz Prokopowicz
Sustainable forest management strategies work to conserve forests from various parts and environmental conditions in order to conserve biological diversity.
