The sustainable management of forests and the careful use of their resources are key to combating climate change and to the prosperity and well-being of current and future generations. Yet despite all these invaluable environmental, economic, social and health benefits, global deforestation continues to advance at an alarming rate.
To focus attention on this unabated degradation and destruction of forests around the world, at the end of the 1970s, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations proclaimed 21 March the International Day of Forests.
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