Healthy forests provide half of the fresh fruit we eatworldwide. They also produce valuable crops likecoffee, avocados, cashews and other healthful seedsand nuts.
Bhaskar Vira is the director of the University ofCambridge Conservation Research Institute and anexpert with the International Union of Forest Research Organizations, orIUFRO.
It recently released a report at the United Nations about forest andjungle foods.