Integrated management of mountain forests in Liechtenstein

The maintenance of the protective functions of the forests is of vital importance in the alpine country of Liechtenstein. The quantitative and qualitative preservation of the forests are therefore deemed a goal of utmost priority. The objective of forest management embraces all activities intended to preserve multiple use forest ecosystems which are able to satisfy certain human needs as regards forest goods and immaterial forest services on the one hand and the needs of plant and fauna species as regards conservation and amelioration of living space and living conditions on the other. Decisive instruments implement to this sustainable forest management are an overall policy pinpointed in the multiple functions plan and an adjusted system of financial compensations and contributions.