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 The World Bank-WWF Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use
The World Bank/WWF Alliance for Forest Conservation and Sustainable Use is a strategic, performance-based, global partnership that works with governments, the private sector, and civil society in support of activities to significantly reduce the loss and degradation of all forest types worldwide.
The Alliance pursues three targets for the year 2005 in order to achieve this overarching goal: (i) 50 million hectares of new forest protected areas; (ii) a comparable area of existing but highly threatened forest protected areas secured under effective management; and (iii) 200 million hectares of production forests under independently certified sustainable management.
The Alliance has achieved considerable progress made toward the Alliance targets on protected areas and certification. Progress towards the two protected area targets is significant: at present, there are 47 million hectares of new protected areas, and over 70 million hectares of protected areas under improved management regimes, that have been assisted in some way by the efforts of the Bank or WWF, acting both individually and collectively. By the end of 2005, the Alliance is likely to have met or exceeded the 50 million hectare targets for protected areas.
Progress toward the target for 200 million hectares of production forests under independently certified sustainable management has been slower. However, the area of FSC certified forest in Bank client countries now totals 22 million ha. The prospects for continued expansion of certified forests in Brazil and Russia are promising.
The dimensions for a renewed Alliance are currently being explored with consolidated targets related to national efforts to halt deforestation, improved forest management through certification, protected areas, community forest management, and forest landscape restoration. An announcement on the extension of the Alliance is expected in the near future.
For more information visit http://www.forest-alliance.org
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