<P> In Western countries, increasing consumer demand for wood products that have been produced and harvested in a sustainable manner is causing forest landowners and forest industries to become increasingly accountable for their forest management and timber harvesting practices . </P> <P> The Arbor Day Foundation's Rain Forest Rescue program is a charity that helps to prevent deforestation . The charity uses donated money to buy up and preserve rainforest land before the lumber companies can buy it . The Arbor Day Foundation then protects the land from deforestation . This also locks in the way of life of the primitive tribes living on the forest land . Organizations such as Community Forestry International, Cool Earth, The Nature Conservancy, World Wide Fund for Nature, Conservation International, African Conservation Foundation and Greenpeace also focus on preserving forest habitats . Greenpeace in particular has also mapped out the forests that are still intact and published this information on the internet . World Resources Institute in turn has made a simpler thematic map showing the amount of forests present just before the age of man (8000 years ago) and the current (reduced) levels of forest . These maps mark the amount of afforestation required to repair the damage caused by people . </P> <P> In order to acquire the world's demand for wood, it is suggested that high yielding forest plantations are suitable according to forest writers Botkins and Sedjo . Plantations that yield 10 cubic meters per hectare a year would supply enough wood for trading of 5% of the world's existing forestland . By contrast, natural forests produce about 1--2 cubic meters per hectare; therefore, 5--10 times more forestland would be required to meet demand . Forester Chad Oliver has suggested a forest mosaic with high - yield forest lands interspersed with conservation land . </P> <P> Globally, planted forests increased from 4.1% to 7.0% of the total forest area between 1990 and 2015 . Plantation forests made up 280 million ha in 2015, an increase of about 40 million ha in the last ten years . Globally, planted forests consist of about 18% exotic or introduced species while the rest are species native to the country where they are planted . In South America, Oceania, and East and Southern Africa, planted forests are dominated by introduced species: 88%, 75% and 65%, respectively . In North America, West and Central Asia, and Europe the proportions of introduced species in plantations are much lower at 1%, 3% and 8% of the total area planted, respectively . </P>

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