South Korea ranked first in the world in the category of "forest tree accumulation growth rate," the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said in its analysis.
The Korea Forest Service (KFS) said on Oct. 13 that it evaluated Korea as the world's No. 1 forest management growth in forest management over the past 25 years (1990-2015) at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Forest Service (COFO) held a video conference for 11 days from Oct. 2 to 12.
The FAO COFO is one of the biggest events in the forest sector held every two years, a regular meeting that shares international forest policy directions and releases forest-related information and statistics from around the world and continents.
The committee, which was scheduled to be held in June this year, was postponed due to COVID-19 and held a large-scale video conference as a global event from Oct. 2 to 12.
A forum was held on Oct. 12 over the report published by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization in late 2019 under the topic of "Forest Futures in the Asia-Pacific Region.”
A director of the KFS in charge of the international forest cooperation participated in the event and announced the implications, including the results of the analysis in the "Forest Future in the Asia-Pacific Region."
Ko Ki-yeon, director of the KFS, said, "Unlike previous studies, the U.N. Forest Agriculture Organization's report is of high value in terms of time-series (1990-2015 years) comparison of 'forest management performance per unit area.'"
"In addition to the pride that Korea planted 10 billion trees in the past forestation period (1973–87), it has proved to be the highest level of forest management in the world since 1990," he said.
