Seminar: Forest Monitoring at FAO

In Rome,  FAO held a seminar highlighting the importance of forest monitoring and sharing results from FAO’s global remote sensing survey

• Press release and interviews
• Presentations
  
• Editorial: How much forest would there be if we did not know how much forest there has been?
  Commonwealth Forestry Association Newsletter, March 2014

Seminar webcasts

• Presenting the International Day of Forests video
• Opening address by José Graziano da Silva, Director General, FAO
• Presentation of the results of FAO’s global remote sensing survey of forests, Kenneth MacDicken, Senior Forest Officer
• Highlights of FAO’s work on forest monitoring, Eduardo Mansur
• Brief statements by key resource partners:
    Brazil
    European Union
    Finland
    Germany
    Norway
    Sweden
    United States
    Russian Federation 
    Belgium
• Closing remarks by Eduardo Rojas, FAO Forestry Assistant Director-General