Global Forest Resources Assessment has been monitoring the world\u2019s forests at 5 to 10 year intervals since 1946. The Global Forest Resources Assessments (FRA) are now produced every five years in an attempt to provide a consistent approach to describing the world\u2019s forests and how they are changing. The Assessment is based on two primary sources of data: Country Reports prepared by National Correspondents and remote sensing that is conducted by FAO together with national focal points and regional partners. The scope of the FRA has changed regularly since the first assessment published in 1948. These assessments make an interesting history of global forest interests, both in terms of their substantive content, but also in their changing scope.
Forest ownership 2015 (%)
Generally refers to the legal right to freely and exclusively use, control, transfer, or otherwise benefit
from a forest. Ownership can be acquired through transfers such as sales, donations, and inheritance.
Forest owned by individuals, families, communities, private co-operatives, corporations and other
business entities, religious and private educational institutions, pension or investment funds, NGOs,
nature conservation associations and other private institutions.
Forest owned by the State; or administrative units of the Public Administration; or by institutions or
corporations owned by the Public Administration.
- Other types of ownership/unknown
Other kinds of ownership arrangements not covered by public or private ownership or forest area where
ownership is unknown.
