The United Nations Strategic Plan for Forests 2017-2030 sets 6 goals to protect and expand forests, with an addition of 120 million hectares by 2030, supporting the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Agreements.
Forest Journal
At the height of summer, we invite you to discover some legendary state forests. In particular, as the heat rises, the forest microclimate offers shade and appreciably lower temperatures.
Biodiversity is part of ecosystem functioning. It is largely stimulated by the micro-habitats, which are real little living environments sheltered by the trees. The micro-habitats are havens very varied depending of the morphology of the trees.
According to data from Météo France, 2020 is the hottest year la plus chaude registered since 1900. The average temperature of the year reached 14°C, while the normal average for metropolitan France is about 12,6°C (climatic normals over the period 1981-2010)
We talked a lot about forests, of their important role for biodiversity and of plentiful ecosystem services returned by trees to society.
A forest soil is a set of layers that overlap on what is called a bedrock, the geological terrain.