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Table 8.9: Trends towards sustainable forest management by subregion
Themes and variables	Africa			Asia			Europe	North and Central America			Oceania	S. Amer.
Themes and variables	East & South	North	West & Central	East	South & South East	West & Central	Europe	Carib.	Central	North	Oceania	S. Amer.
High (reporting countries represent 75–100% of total forest area)							Positive change (greater than 0.50%)
Medium (reporting countries represent 50–75% of total forest area)							No major change (between -0.50 and 0.50%)
Low (reporting countries represent 25–50% of total forest area)							Negative change (less than -0.50%)
						-	Insufficient data to determine trend
NWFP = Non-Wood Forest Products
Extent of forest resources
Area of forest	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High
Area of other wooded land	Medium	Low	High	High	Medium	High	High	High	High	Medium	-	Low
Growing stock of forests	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	-	Medium
Carbon stock per hectare in forest biomass	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	Low	-	High
Biological diversity
Area of primary forest	High	High	Low	High	High	High	High	Medium	High	High	High	High
Area of forest designated primarily for conservation of biological diversity	High	High	Low	High	High	High	High	Medium	High	High	-	High
Total forest area excluding area of productive forest plantations	High	High	Low	High	High	High	High	Medium	High	High	High	High
Forest health and vitality
Area of forest affected by fire	-	-	-	High	High	High	High	Medium	-	High	-	High
Area of forest affected by insects, disease and other disturbances	-	-	-	High	Low	Medium	High	-	-	High	-	Medium
Productive functions of forest resources
Area of forest designated primarily for production	High	High	Low	High	High	High	High	Medium	High	High	-	High
Area of productive forest plantations	High	High	Low	High	High	High	High	Medium	High	High	High	High
Commercial growing stock	High	Low	Low	High	Medium	High	High	Medium	Medium	High	-	Medium
Total wood removals	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	High
Total NWFP removals	-	Medium	-	High	Low	Medium	High	Low	-	-	-	Medium
Protective functions of forest resources
Area of forest designated primarily for protection	High	High	Low	High	High	High	High	Medium	High	High	-	High
Area of protective forest plantations	High	High	Low	High	High	High	High	Medium	High	High	High	High
Socio-economic functions
Value of total wood removals	-	Low	-	High	High	High	-	Low	High	Medium	-	High
Value of total NWFP removals	-	Medium	-	-	Low	Medium	High	Low	-	Medium	-	Medium
Total employment	Low	Medium	Low	High	Medium	High	High	High	Medium	High	High	-
Area of forest under private ownership	High	High	High	High	High	High	High	Medium	Medium	High	-	-
Area of forest designated primarily for social services	High	High	Low	High	High	High	High	Medium	High	High	-	High

Source: WHO Global Forest Resources Assessment 2005,
Progress towards sustainable forest management
Chapter 8 Progress towards sustainable forest management. p.144-145

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Table 1.1: FRA 2005 reporting tables

Table 1.2: Indicative linkages among reporting tables and thematic elements of sustainable forest management

Table 1.3: Key statistics for regions and subregions used in FRA 2005

Table 2.1: Distribution of forests by subregion

Table 2.3: Forest cover by subregion 2005

Table 2.8: Carbon stock per hectare 2005

Table 2.10: Trends in carbon stocks in forest biomass 1990–2005

Table 3.3: Area of forest designated primarily for conservation of biodiversity 2005

Table 4.1: Average area of forest annually affected by fire 1998–2002

Table 4.3: Average area of forest annually affected by insects 1998–2002

Table 4.4: Average area of forest annually affected by diseases 1998–2002

Table 4.7: Average area of forest annually affected by other disturbances 1998–2002

Table 5.1: Area of forest designated primarily for production 2005

Table 5.7: Forest area and growing stock 2005

Table 5.13: Removals of four categories of Non-Wood Forest Products 2005 (tonnes)

Table 6.2: Area of forest designated primarily for protection 2005

Table 5.8: Commercial growing stock 2005

Table 6.3 Total area of forest designated for protection 2005

Table 7.2: Value of wood removals 2005

Table 7.4: Value of Non-Wood Forest Products removals 2005

Table 7.6: Number of people employed in forestry in 2000

Table 7.8: Ownership of forest area 2000

Table 8.2: Trends towards sustainable forest management at the global level

Table 8.3 Trends towards sustainable forest management in Africa

Table 8.4: Trends towards sustainable forest management in Asia

Table 8.5: Trends towards sustainable forest management in Europe

Table 8.6: Trends towards sustainable forest management in North and Central America

Table 8.7: Trends towards sustainable forest management in Oceania

Table 8.8: Trends towards sustainable forest management in South America

Table 8.9: Trends towards sustainable forest management by subregion

Table 5.10: Trends in commercial growing stock 1990–2005

Figure 1.1: Regional and Subregional breakdown used in FRA 2005

Figure 2.2: The world’s forests

Figure 2.3: Ten countries with largest forest ares 2005 (million ha)

Figure 2.5: Forest Change Dynamics

Figure 2.9: Forest characteristics 2005 (%)

Figure 2.12: Total Carbon Stock (C) in forests by region 2005

Figure 3.3: Ten countries with the largest area of primary forest 2005 (%)

Figure 3.11: Number of native forest tree species

Figure 3.13: Average number of threatened tree species by region

Figure 5.5: Ten countries with largest area of productive forest plantations 2005 (%)

Figure 5.8: Five countries with greatest total growing stock 2005 (%)

Figure 5.10: Five countries with largest volume of wood removal 2005 (%)

Figure 6.1: Information availability – protective functions of forest resources

Figure 7.7: Ownership of forests by subregion 2000

Figure 8.1: Designated functions of forests globally 2005 (%)

Figure 8.2 Distribution of subregional trends

Forest cover by subregion 2005 and distribution

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Box 2.1 FRA 2005 thematic study on planted forests

Box 2.2 FRA 2005 thematic study on mangroves

Box 2.3 FRA 2005 thematic study on bamboo

Box 4.1 FRA 2005 thematic study on forest fires

Box 4.2 FRA 2005 thematic study on forest pests

Box 6.1 FRA 2005 thematic study on forests and water

Box 7.1 FRA 2005 thematic study on forest ownership and resource tenure