Rain Forest

Progress of the Tropical Forests and reviewed the difficulties it was facing. The ability of the Tropical Forests to reverse the deforestation trend and wondered whether more keen and stronger action were needed, as one of the many major forest approaches which constantly fail to consider the existential dimension of the forest itself, the advantage of us all - but not to the forest which is still prey to the most horrendous mutilations and violations without anyone taking up its defence. It is simply not enough to talk about defending the forest with all sorts of legislation or with technology to combat fire, disease, pests and poor management. This is an approach which focuses solely on the production of viable commercial species and suitable fibres for high-quality paper, and on developing the recreational area we need for our well-being and that of our children. Nor is it enough to think of forest protection only in terms of our expectations, our demands, our leisure and our economies, it is time we started to talk about the forest in its own right. We need to talk about a symbiotic relationship with the forest, and to defend it beyond our unilateral interests. The forest is and always will be that great physical and living creature, that link in the supreme chain of life in which humans, oceans, rivers and lakes, air and airborne creatures are but links, each as vulnerable as the next. Let us push this line of reasoning a little further and consider the forest. Let us look at what is happening in our vast forests which, like the air and the water, are part of our common heritage. Is there still room to consider this misunderstood resource in its own right? Let us take humanity, which we worry about so much in our self-centred way. Humankind has cloaked itself in the protection of rules, regulations and codes against all forms of abuse- panoply of provisions requiring insurers, solicitors, lawyers, magistrates, the media, the police, the militia and the military. The solemn appeal is as much a cry of alarm as a manifestation of hope: we know what humankind is capable of. Statement leaves no stone unturned and includes: ý Considerations regarding the forest situation and the concern to contain poverty; ý Reminders that policy-makers have made commitments and should show their good faith by introducing the necessary financial, scientific and cooperation mechanisms; affirmations, particularly with regard to sustainable development and the protection of biodiversity; ý Recommendations, particularly regarding the involvement of people in they integrated development and management of trees and forests within an overall framework of national sovereignty. Solely on the basis of safeguarding our economies and those functions of the forest that concern us? What we gain from this statement of faith could easily be lost if we fail to establish from the outset a bona fide boundary between the services we can expect from the forest and the reciprocal services it is our duty to return. If this is the case, the forest will once again find itself at the mercy of humanity's sovereignty and proprietary jurisdiction. In consensus on the welfare of the forest for humankind's benefit could well be lost if we do not concede the forest its say and its right to exist and if we continue to define superior and jurisdictional rights on the basis of declarations of principle driven by political situations and market crises. As a substance. The thoughts expressed here are not those of an ecologist as understood in the media, but rather of a person who dreams, of changing the existing social contract and moving toward a natural contract that would undoubtedly secure a better future for our planet.