Forests

Datasets and Maps

These databases and maps provide a key resource on the state of the world's forests and their protection and management.

- Information on UNEP-WCMC's forest mapping history, forest data harmonisation process, forest types and forest classification system.

- Forest Protection Analysis, July 2000 (global, regional and country level maps and statistics)
- Global Forest Cover Map
- Temperate and Boreal Forests
- Mountains and Mountain Forests
- Tropical Montane Cloud Forests

- Maps and charts of trends in certified forest sites endorsed by the Forest Stewardship Council, December 1995 to January 2006.

- Map of the world's estimated original forest cover between the end of the last ice age and the expansion of the Europeans - c.8,000 years ago.

- Global distribution map and list of forest sites certified by the Forest Stewardship Council.
Database of forest restoration projects on the Forest Restoration Information Service.

- Tree Conservation Information Service, including the database of globally threatened trees.

External Resources