• Enviroment, Forests, Water
• deforestation, ecosystem services, Featured, international day of forests, United Nations
• March 21, 2016

Happy International Day of Forests! March 21 marks the International Day of Forests (IDF). The United Nations General Assembly established  IDF on November 28, 2012 as a means of raising awareness of the beauty, importance and plight of the world’s forests. The history of IDF stretches back to 1971 when the 16th session of the Conference for Food and Agriculture voted to …