Australia’s forests and forestry glossary

1. A set of objectives, activities and outcomes consistent with maintaining or improving a forest’s ecological integrity and contributing to people’s wellbeing now and in the future.

2. The practice of stewardship and use of forests and forest lands in such a way, and at a rate, that maintains their biodiversity, productivity, regeneration capacity and vitality, and their potential to fulfil, now and in the future, relevant ecological, economic and social functions at local, national and global levels, and that does not cause damage to other ecosystems.

See Ecologically sustainable forest management (ESFM), Ecosystem, Productivity, Regeneration.