High conservation value forest

High conservation value forest (HCVF) is a Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) forest management designation used to describe those forests who meet criteria defined by the FSC Principles and Criteria of Forest Stewardship. Specifically, high conservation value forests are those that possess one or more of the following attributes: forest areas containing globally, regionally or nationally significant: concentrations of biodiversity values (e.g.

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