OBJECTIVES
To identify and protect areas to be excluded from harvesting.
To identify and protect sensitive areas within harvest zones.
To reduce negative downstream impacts on people and resources.
Retaining habitat trees in production areas where appropriate for wildlife.
Protecting rare and endangered species and communities in production areas by modifying harvesting regimes or maintaining sections of unlogged forest.
Protecting representative areas of all forest types in conservation or reserve forests.
Maintaining databases on the distribution of plants and animal species within forest areas is also useful for benchmarking purposes.