WWF's Forests for Life Campaign has been taking positive action and making tremendous strides over recent years to protect our forests and the web of life which so depend on the rich forest ecosystems. Well, it means that we are on the right track, but more work needs to go into the improved management of the areas under protection, while greater protection is needed for those vulnerable areas, many of which are not protected at all. Many of these countries are also some of the poorest nations in the world, and the link between poverty alleviation and forest conservation should and must be made. Protecting these forests, and others like them, is a case of managing them effectively and sustainably. In doing so, people can live with a valuable natural resource, that can provide food and living materials, such as fresh supplies of clean drinking water.
Forests therefore are vital to life in many ways.
It is time to balance our efforts and take action for greater and better forest protection.