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The IFL Mapping Team is continuing to improve the IFL base map and to provide periodically updates as new data, technologies, and more sophisticated sources of information appears. Please check News & Updates for information about the latest map release... The significance of the IFL analysis method and map lies in its power to enable and catalyze practical conservation planning and action with regard to large undeveloped forest landscapes. Protection of large natural forest landscapes is a highly important task to help fulfill different international strategic initiatives to protect forest biodiversity (CBD), to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (IGBP, REDD) and to stimulate sustainable forestry management practice use (FSC). The IUCN World Conservation Congress in 2016 adopted a motion (Motion 048) that "encourages states, the private sector and international financial institutions to: a. avoid loss and degradation of primary forests, including intact..

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