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Deforestation and forest degradation continue at an alarming rate worldwide and jeopardize the tremendous diversity of species and habitat types present in forests around the globe. They also put at risk the large variety of ecosystem services forests provide to humankind. In view of this global problem, the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) adopted a specific Programme of Work of Forest Biological Diversity that sets as one of its targets the conservation of "at least 10% of the world's forest types" by 2010.