How ¿clearly visible indication of human activities¿ should be interpreted in order to distinguish between Primary and Modified natural Forest/OWL?
A1 Almost all forests have been affected one way or another by human activities for commercial or for subsistence purposes by logging and/or collection of non-wood forest products. The general rule is that if the activities have been of such a low impact that the ecological processes have not been disturbed, the forest should be classified as Primary. This would allow for including activities such as a non-destructive collection of NWFP. Likewise it may include areas where a few trees have been extracted as long as this happened long time ago and where no visible signs of this extraction remain. Q2 For FRA 2000, the industrialized temperate/boreal countries used only three classes: Forests/other wooded land undisturbed by man; semi-natural forests and plantations. Why does FRA 2005 include 5 classes and what is the difference between the old and the new classification system? A2 For FRA 2000, developing countries were asked to classify natural forests into three classes: Undisturbed na
