Importance of Forests - WWF
网页Forests provide habitats for plants and animals, including some of our planet’s most iconic species like the tiger, giant panda, gorilla and orangutan. Habitat loss is one of the main causes of biodiversity loss, as land that once was forest is cleared for other uses.
Forest | Definition, Ecology, Types, Trees, Examples, & Facts
网页2024年9月5日 · A forest is nature’s most efficient ecosystem, with a high rate of photosynthesis affecting both plant and animal systems in a series of complex organic relationships. Forests can develop under various conditions, and the kind of soil, plant, and animal life differs according to the extremes of environmental influences.
Wildlife Conservation - National Geographic Society
网页2024年5月9日 · Wildlife conservation is the practice of protecting plant and animal species and their habitats. Wildlife is integral to the world’s ecosystems, providing balance and stability to nature’s processes. The goal of wildlife conservation is to ensure the survival of these species, and to educate people on living sustainably with other species.
Forests | Initiatives | WWF - World Wildlife Fund
网页WWF is working to address the threats to forests: By 2030, we must conserve the world’s forests to sustain nature’s diversity, benefit our climate and support human well-being. Most of WWF’s work is being done in tropical rain forests, which are the most biologically diverse and complex forests on Earth—forests in the Amazon, the Congo ...
Deforestation and Forest Degradation | Threats | WWF - World Wildlife …
网页2018年12月4日 · Forests cover nearly one-third of the land area on our planet and are home to most of the world’s life on land. They are also essential to human health, purifying our water and air and serving as our first line of defense against new infectious diseases. Additionally, forests provide more than 86 million green jobs and resources such as food ...
Protecting and restoring Earth's forests by 2030 - World Wildlife …
网页2023年10月24日 · A startling increase in the speed and intensity of global deforestation has derailed efforts to protect and restore forests by 2030, according to two new reports analyzing progress toward global forest conservation goals. WWF's Forest Pathways 2023 report and the Forest Declaration Assessment detail the immense scale of …
Fish, Wildlife, and Plants | US Forest Service
网页Our Nation’s forests and grasslands provide some of the most important habitats for wildlife and fish. They provide countless benefits—ecological, recreational, economic, and cultural—to both nature and society. Existing and emerging threats, such as habitat loss, climate change, and invasive species, affect the ability of our Nation's ...
Why do forests matter? | UNEP - UN Environment Programme
网页Forests cover one-third of the Earth's land mass, serving as critical pillars for both environmental health and human well-being. These ecosystems are not only the home to over half of the world’s terrestrial species but also play a pivotal role in combating climate change through their natural processes of carbon sequestration.
Inside the global effort to save the world’s forests - UNEP
网页Forests cover approximately 31 percent of the global land area and provide habitat for the vast majority of the terrestrial plant and animal species known to science. Forests and the biodiversity they contain continue to be under threat from farming and exploitation, much of it …
How We Conserve and Restore Forests - The Nature Conservancy
网页2021年9月20日 · Explore TNC's forest conservation and climate-smart forest management practices, guided by science to curb climate change and benefit people and wildlife. This is how and why The Nature Conservancy conserves and restores forests around the world.
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