Intact Forest Landscape Greenpeace Report

Ment the loss of intact forest landscapes and the impact on ecological val ues that lay in a broader forest landscape.

Intact forest landscape greenpeace report. The vast majority of these areas are located in the most remote areas of the far north. Essentially undisturbed by human development with an area of at least 50 000 hectares make up about 14 percent 31 7 million hectares of the total forest area of european russia including the ural mountains. Following the release of a new report compiling the latest science about large intact forests landscapes ifls their critical importance for people biodiversity and climate and the consequences of fragmenting them in particular via logging and associated road building greenpeace releases a briefing focusing more specifically on the case of the congo basin. They are large extents of primary forest or large landscape level unfragmented forest ecosystems but they may also contain non forest ecosystem components eg lakes swamps or mountains.

Unfortunately the integrity of the montagnes blanches endangered forest identifi ed in greenpeace s boreal alarm report in 2013 has continued to be impacted experiencing further degradation. The value of intact forest landscapes has taken hold in the global psyche. Greenpeace released a new report compiling the latest science about the critical importance of intact forests and the devastating effect of pushing roads through them or logging them. They cover a little over one fifth of the global forest vegetation zone 1.

Greenpeace released a new report compiling the latest science about the critical importance of intact forests and the devastating effect of pushing roads through them or logging them. Intact forest landscapes ifls are the remaining large at least 500 km 2 unfragmented areas of forests which are minimally influenced by human economic activity. Intact forest landscapes ifl are mosaics of forest and naturally treeless ecosystems within the zone of current forest extent which exhibit no remotely detected signs of human activity or habitat fragmentation and are large enough to maintain all native biological diversity including viable populations of wide ranging species. Intact forest landscapes ifls 7are defined as those with an unfragmented area of at least 500 km2and which are minimally influenced by human economic activity.

The report goes further to show how to protect the intact forests through participatory land use planning and different land use options. Forest landscapes that are still intact i e. They are large extents of primary forest or large landscape level unfragmented. The report goes further to show how to protect the intact forests through participatory land use planning and different land use options.