Wildlife and protected areas management
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Initiatives in FAO
FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005
The Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005 (FRA 2005) is the latest and most comprehensive assessment of forests and forestry to date. It includes information on current status and recent trends for about 40 variables covering the extent, condition, uses and values of forests and other wooded land. The results are presented according to six thematic elements of sustainable forest management.
The Committee on Forestry (COFO) is the most important of the FAO Forestry Statutory Bodies. The biennial sessions of COFO (held at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy) bring together heads of forest services and other senior government officials to identify emerging policy and technical issues, to seek solutions and to advise FAO and others on appropriate action. Other international organizations and, increasingly, non-governmental groups participate in COFO. As the need arises, FAO also convenes special meetings of forestry ministers, non-governmental organizations and private industry.
REDPARQUES was created in 1983 by the countries in the region with the assistance of FAO. It was created out of the need to progress in the management of wildlife in Latin America and the Caribbean and the political will of the countries to share more effectively the available technical knowledge and experience.
REDPARQUES fue creada en 1983 por los países de la Región y con el apoyo de la FAO. Su creación se debió a la necesidad de progresar en el manejo de las áreas protegidas en América Latina y a la voluntad de los países de compartir más eficazmente los conocimientos técnicos y las experiencias disponibles en la Región.
FAO African Regional Bushmeat website
FAO African Regional Domestication of wildlife species website
FAO Commission on genetic resources for food and agriculture
FAO Domestic animals diversity information system
FAO Fishery Statistics programme
Livestock, Environment And Development Virtual Research and Development Center
FAO Emergency Prevention System for Transboundary Animal and Plant Pests and Diseases (EMPRES)
FAO Veterinary Public Health and Feed and Food Safety (VPH)
FAO Avian Influenza and Wild birds
GeoNetwork opensource is a standardized and decentralized spatial information management
environment, designed to enable access to geo-referenced databases, cartographic products and related metadata from a variety of sources, enhancing the spatial information exchange and sharing between organizations and their audience, using the capacities of the internet.
FAO Global Terrestrial Observing System
GTOS is a programme for observations, modelling, and analysis of terrestrial ecosystems to support sustainable development. GTOS facilitates access to information on terrestrial ecosystems so that researchers and policy makers can detect and manage global and regional environmental change.
FAO Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites database
Terrestrial Ecosystem Monitoring Sites database, is an international directory of sites (named T.Sites) and networks that carry out long-term, terrestrial in-situ monitoring and research activities. The system provides information on the "who, what and where" that can be useful to both the scientific community and policy-makers.
FAO Globally Important Agricultural Heritage systems
In 2002 FAO initiated a wide programme on conservation and adaptive management of Globally Important Agricultural Heritage systems (GIAHS) aiming to establish the basis for the global recognition, conservation and sustainable management of such systems and their associated landscapes, biodiversity, knowledge systems and cultures.
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