US media: China's forest cover has a net growth in | forest _ news

Original title: US media: forest protection effective forest governance success in China is very important to the world

United States of the Christian Science Monitor, the original question: forest protection: effective environmental projects in China China's deforestation problem seems to have turned, there is evidence that since 1998 the implementation of forest conservation project in Beijing is paying off. For dozens of years of logging operations and clearing forest land have made China's forest area is shrinking, but the new data show that in the period from 2000 to 2010, China's forest cover has been a net growth.

A team of scientists using satellite images to study the situation of China's forest cover and found that in the past 10 years, about 1.6% on the territory of China's forest coverage to grow significantly, with coverage declining area only 0.38%.

Forests are key to mitigating climate change. However, in the 1/4 of the past century, the world's forest area has been reduced by about 319 million acres (about 130 million hectares). Forest protection projects such as China has begun to reverse this trend.

In response to the deforestation caused by the disastrous consequences for a long time, such as biodiversity loss, floods and soil erosion, China (2000) starts the natural forest protection project. In fact, as early as 1998-2000, the Chinese Government has invested more than 2 billion dollars on the project.

"In the long term, sustainable forest management is essential to the rest of the world," Nature Conservancy and northeast regions of China Foreign Affairs Tan Baode, a senior adviser said.

Worldwide, forest protection's present situation is not very optimistic, but reports indicate the global rate of deforestation is slowing. FAO data show that 90 of the last century, average annual loss of 0.18% forest in the world, while from 2010 to 2015, that figure had dropped to 0.08%. (Author yiwa·botejin-Kovacs, Wang Huicong translation)

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美媒：中国森林覆盖面积已实现净增长|森林_新闻资讯

　　原标题：美媒：森林保护奏效 中国森林治理成功对世界很重要

　　美国《基督教科学箴言报》，原题：森林保护：中国卓有成效的环保工程 中国的森林砍伐问题似乎已经出现转机，有证据表明北京从1998年开始实施的森林保护项目正在奏效。长达数十年的砍伐作业和开垦林地曾使中国的森林面积日渐萎缩，但新数据显示，在2000年至2010年期间，中国森林覆盖面积已实现净增长。

　　一个科学家小组利用卫星图像对中国的森林覆盖状况进行研究后发现，在这10年间，中国约1.6%领土上的森林覆盖率出现大幅增长，而覆盖率持续下降的区域仅占0.38%。

　　森林是减缓气候变化的关键。然而，在过去的1/4世纪中，全世界的森林面积已减少约3.19亿英亩（约1.3亿公顷）。像中国开展的此类森林保护项目已开始逆转这种趋势。

　　为应对长期砍伐森林引发的灾难性后果，如生物多样性丧失、洪灾和水土流失等，北京（在2000年正式）启动天然林资源保护工程。其实，早在1998至2000年，中国政府就已对该项目投资20多亿美元。

　　“从长期看，中国可持续的森林治理方式对全世界其他地区至关重要，”大自然保护协会中国及东北亚地区对外事务高级顾问谭宝德说。

　　在世界范围内，森林保护的现状仍不太令人乐观，但有报告显示全球砍伐森林的速度正在放缓。联合国粮农组织的数据表明，上世纪90年代，全世界每年平均丧失0.18%的森林，但在2010年至2015年间，该数字已降至0.08%。（作者伊娃·波特金-科瓦奇，王会聪译）

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