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Paper highlights key role of forestry in SDGs A people depend on forests for subsistence and income,” he said. “Evidenced-based active and adaptive forest management can underpin a Forest Growers (IFA/AFG) circular economy while President Bob Gordon laud- also storing carbon, coned the paper, saying that serving biodiversity, proAustralian forest scientists tecting water supplies and have an important role meeting the cultural needs to play in informing and of societies. Well managed forests are a truly renewachieving the SDGs. “Averting catastrophic able resource.” The paper is authored environmental and hence developmental outcomes by Australian Forestry will require a concerted managing editor, Alastair and efficient global effort, Sarre, and Chairman of the and high-quality science is journal’s editorial board, essential to achieving this,” Stuart Davey. Drawing on several recent global pubMr Gordon said. “Australia is a world lead- lications, it includes a sumer in best-practice sustain- mary of the contributions able forest management of forests to the 17 SDGs and, as such, we can sup- and the potential impacts port not only our region, of the SDGs on forests and but the entire globe to meet forest-related livelihoods and economies. the SDGs. Dr Davey said that Aus“Worldwide, 350 million
new paper has highlighted the key role that forests, forest managers and forest science can play in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The SDGs were agreed by nations globally in 2015 to tackle the world’s most pressing problems, such as hunger, poverty, inequality, climate change and biodiversity loss. The Sustainable Development Goals, forests, and the role of Australian Forestry,’ published in Australian Forestry, the journal of The Institute of Foresters of Australia, commits to the rational and rigorous examination of all aspects of forests and the evidence-based improvement of forestry in Australia and the rest of the Indo-Pacific region. Institute of Foresters of Australia and Australian
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Australia is a world leader in best-practice sustainable forest management.
“Our journal, Australian Forestry, is resolved to play its part, and we call on forest scientists and practitioners in Australia and the rest of the Indo-Pacific region to make full use of our platform to help achieve the SDGs. “Most of the SDGs are to be achieved by 2030, which shows the urgency with which the world needs to act,” Mr Sarre said. “And tralian Forestry is support- we need to do so, backed by ing the SDGs by communi- rigorous science. Forests cating scientific, economic, are vital for our future; we social and policy research need to know what’s hapand analysis on forests in pening to them, and we Australia and the Indo-Pa- need to use them sustainably.” cific region. ‘The Sustainable Devel“The world continues to face economic, social, opment Goals, forests, and health and environmen- the role of Australian Fortal crises. Robust, peer- estry,’ published in Ausreviewed scientific inquiry tralian Forestry is availand civil debate is vital if able to read at https://doi. we are to avert and manage org/10.1080/00049158.2021 .1920207 these crises,” he said.
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