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Contents below:

     · General information     

       · News

         · Periodicals

           · Forest education

             · Differentiation of forest biomes

               · Forest biomes:

                      ~ Boreal/taiga

                      ~ Temperate

                      ~ Tropical

Subpages:

      · International forest agreements & organizations

        · Forest institutions

          · Forests, climate change & REDD+

            · Forest fire & wildfire

Also see:

     · Forest bathing at Environmental psychology, nature therapy & climate anxiety

       · Plant taxa for specific arboreal taxonomic information (eg, species & varieties) as well as tree identification.

For location-specific forest information, start at:

      · World geography hub

        · Countries A>Z

               ~ USA forests

          · Urban areas for information on urban forests

General Information

     · In addition to the links below, a great deal of general information on forests is

       available from a range of organizations at the Forest Institutions page.

Forest-related events @ UNDESA

Deforestation in selected countries @ Mongabay

Facts on Forests and Forestry

Forest biome @ EoE

Forest Landscape Integrity Index

Forest List-forum (archive)

Forestry @ Statista

Forests @ Our World in Data

Forests Make us Healthier Toolkit @ Northeast Forest Network

Global Forest Atlas

Global Forest Resources Assessment @ FAO

Global Forest Watch

InfoFLR (Forest Landscape Restoration) @ IUCN

Rainforest Portal


News

Forests News @ CIFOR


Periodicals

✔︎Info@⇾Forestry publications @ ThoughtCo.

Agroforestry Systems

Annals of Forest Science

Arborvitae News Digest

Fire Ecology

Forest Ecology and Management

Forest History Today

Forestry

Forestry Chronicle

Forest Briefs

Forests

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change

International Forestry Review

Journal of Forestry

Journal of Forestry Research

Southern Forests

Trees, Forests and People

Unasylva


Forest education

If trees could talk: Middle school curriculum (Forest History Society)


Forest biome: Differentiation

WWF differentiation between tropical, subtropical, temperate & boreal forests


Forest biomes:

~ Boreal/taiga ~

Alaska Peninsula Montane Taiga

Boreal biome @ Oxford Bibliographies

Boreal forest @ AWA

Boreal forest @ RFP

Boreal forest @ TNC

Boreal Forest and Taiga

Boreal Forest Initiative @ Ducks Unlimited

Boreal forests @ Boreal Songbird Initiative

Boreal Leadership Council [Canada]

Boreal forests @ Regeneration.org

Central Canadian Shield Forests

East Siberian Taiga

Eye on the Taiga @ Greenpeace

International Boreal Conservation Campaign (IBCC)

     Boreal Conservation website

     Canadian Boreal Conservation Framework

     Boreal Songbird Initiative website

     Pew Charitable Trusts website

International Boreal Forest Research Association (IBFRA)

Save the Canadian Boreal @ NRDC

Taiga @ NGS

Taiga biome @ Blue Planet Biomes

Taiga Rescue Network (TRN)

     · Defunct: see TRN Wikipedia page


~ Temperate/deciduous ~

Temperate/Deciduous Forests

Great Smoky Mountains

Northeast Asian Deciduous Forest

European Deciduous Forest


~ Tropical ~

     • See "Transborder region: Amazonia" at Latin & South America page

Tropical Rain Forests

Congo Rain Forest


Forests (& forestry)

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Four key information resources:

  · FAO State of the World's Forests (SOFO)

    · Global Forestry Policy in a nutshell

      · Global Forest Watch

        · Global Forest Atlas

Forest governance
9th World Forest Week
https://www.fao.org/international-day-of-forests-2025/en
https://openknowledge.fao.org/items/8da9c44a-4df4-456e-bc5c-b602f5b2960a