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Forests provide food, wood, and clean water.^1
Also, many important medicinal compounds
are found in the forest.^2Forests provide livelihoods for over a billion
people and are the basis of many industries.^3Forests are home to 300 million people, including 60 million
indigenous inhabitants.^4 They also host much of world’s
biodiversity - unknown multitudes of plants, insects,
amphibians, and mammals like orangutans and rhinos.^5Forests cycle water and nutrients. They provide rainfall,
oxygen, and healthy soil, and cool their local climate.^6Forests are part of the climate solution. They sequester
carbon in their vegetation and soil. Reforestation could
provide significant carbon sinks.^7Forests are
Invaluable
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(^1) Constanza et al., (2017) Twenty years of ecosystem services, Journal of Ecosystem Services.
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(^3) http://www.fao.org/3/W4345E/w4345e05.htm
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(^5) https://www.worldwildlife.org/habitats/forest-habitat
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(^7) http://assets.wwf.org.uk/