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 reources partners:
  Brasil
  European Union
  Finland
  Germany
  Norway
  Sweden
  United States
  Russian Federation
  Belgium
• Closing remarks by Eduardo Rojas, FAO Forestry Assistant Director-General