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According to ForestEthics, Endangered Forests are the most valuable forests on the globe, forests that would be irreparably harmed by industrial resource extraction. In practical terms this means these forests are “NO GO” and “NO BUY” forests.

These forests must be protected from industrial-scale resource extraction so that they may continue to provide the many goods and services they supply in their natural state, and to maintain biological diversity in forest ecosystems. They comprise a large proportion of the world’s remaining old-growth, primary and ancient forests and are located in tropical, temperate and boreal zones.

ForestEthics, along with the Natural Resources Defense Council, Greenpeace, and the Rainforest Action Network, are leading the global effort to define and map this network of the “best of what’s left” of the world’s remaining natural forests.

The term ‘Endangered Forest’ helps guide buyers away from products that may have been sourced from forests that should be maintained in their natural state. The protection of Endangered Forests complements certification of logging operations under the Forest Stewardship Council.

Endangered Forests are identified by the following values or attributes:

• Wilderness forests and intact forest landscapes
• Remnant and restoration values
• Forests that are ecologically critical for the protection of biological diversity, such as naturally rare • forest types, high endemism, or the habitat of focal conservation species

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