Acknowledgements

This paper was drafted originally by the UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section, in cooperation with the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE); the UNECE Water Convention; FAO; the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNUINWEH); UNEP and IUCN. The original authors were: Douglas Clark and Franziska Hirsch (UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section); Petteri Vihervaara and Eeva Primmer (Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE); Arnaud Brizay, Eve Charles and David Ellul (UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section). Paola Deda, Dominique Reeb and Matthew Fonseca (UNECE/FAO Forestry and Timber Section) reviewed the paper together with Ingunn Lindeman and Nicolas Bertrand of UNEP; Lucilla Spini of UNU-INWEH and GECHH; David Huberman of IUCN; Dr. Markus Lehmann of CBD and Sibylle Vermont, of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment BAFU. Jenny Heap, consultant, provided technical and copy editing services.

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