Forest-related policies and laws from national and international perspectives
2004
Assefu Gedlu
A major step towards coordination of the efforts of governments, Official agencies, and international and local conservation and scientific organizations was achieved at Fontainebleau, France, in 1948, when after preliminary meetings in the two previous years, an International Union for the Protection of Nature (IUPN) was founded by representatives of 33 countries, with the encouragement of the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). In 1957, IUPN was renamed the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). The conservation of nature in conjunction with sustainable development is inconceivable without forest. Despite an increase in forest legislation and law however, forests around the world are under threat. Transnational and multinational corporation activities such as large-scale logging are causing hardship for millions of the poor who are reliant on forests for their livelihoods. Today international societies both rich and poor developed and developing, have realized the aggregated impact of business on the environment. But little cooperation has so far been obtained for sustainable forest. The outcome of the 'World Summit on Sustainable Development' in Johannesburg in August 2002, for example, was disappointing.
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