National forest inventory to be conducted
The National Forest Inventory states that 12 million hectares of Mongolia’s total land is covered in forest.
National forest inventory is to be conducted. The National Forest Inventory states that 12 million hectares of Mongolia’s total land is covered in forest. The study estimates that there are approximately five billion trees in Mongolia, and that although 3,025 saplings are growing on each hectare of Mongolia’s forests, most of them have been damaged by insect infestation, fire, or drought. In particular, the inventory’s data indicates that 18.6 percent of trees in Mongolia have been affected by fire, while a total of nine million square meters of trees have been infested with insects. The inventory shows the need to protect Mongolia’s forests and to grow new young and healthy trees. The data collected in the program will also improve Mongolia’s forest-related climate change reporting for the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The inventory is significant for it opens up opportunities for Mongolia to receive financial support from international projects and programs and to participate in carbon credit trading. It’s also highly significant in achieving the goals of the National Forest Policy, which aims to use technical and policy-based models for sustainable and low-carbon forest management adapted to climate change. Mongolia is a partner country of the United Nations’ collaborative initiative on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD), and that one of the essential requirements for partner countries is a national forest monitoring system to collect basic data for the conservation and sustainable management of forest resources.
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