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A SMALL booklet has recently been issued by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, Division of Forestry, entitled "Forest Resources of the World" (Washington, D.C., 1948). This report is of first importance and interest, and discloses the steps which have been taken to have a real inventory of the world's forestry resources prepared, a piece of work far more difficult of achievement than might be supposed. This difficulty is due to the fact that a considerable proportion of the forests of the world are still without any really proper and efficient management. (Consequently, any figures obtained on the subject of the abundance or otherwise of their several resources can, in certain cases, be accepted only with reserve.
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STEBBING, E. Forest Resources of the World. Nature 163, 349–351 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/163349a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/163349a0