KEEPING FORESTS GROUNDED

By SABC News Journalist, Minoshni Pillay - The rate of forest loss has been halved in the last twenty-five years. But efforts to sustain their survival must continue unabated. That was the message from the release of the 2015 Global Forest resources Assessment Report at World Forestry Congress in Durban. In spite of this somewhat positive news, civil society voices at the 14th World Forestry Congress in Durban are calling for a new definition for forests saying, that plantations simply do not cut it.