The Montréal Process
Culturally Important Trees of the Montréal Process: Australia - River red gum, a canoe tree (Eucalyptus camaldulensis)
Aboriginal Australians use bark from mature River red gums to form canoes and shields, with relic trees prevailing as scar or ‘canoe trees’.
Culturally Important Trees of the Montréal Process: Canada - Sugar maple (Acer saccharum)
The maple leaf is featured on Canada’s flag and these beautiful trees have become a symbol of Canada’s national identity and a part of its history. (Photo courtesy iStock.com)
North American “Forests Without Borders”
The Montréal Process countries of North America share a diverse and extensive range of forest types. This storymap shows they increasingly share data to describe those forests.
Criteria and Indicators
The seven criteria and 54 indicators of the Montreal Process provide a common framework for member countries to describe, monitor, assess, and report on national forest trends and progress toward sustainable forest management.
Montreal Process Country Reports
The Montreal Process provides a framework of criteria and indicators for countries to report progress towards achieving sustainable forest ecosystem management for both planted and natural forests.
Public Service Announcement
Christina Hendricks Promotes Sustainable Forestry and the Montreal Process.
The Montréal Process
The Montréal Process Working Group was formed in 1994 as a bold, intergovernmental response to the pressing need for sustainable forest management. One of its first tasks was to develop and implement internationally agreed-upon criteria and indicators for the conservation and sustainable management of temperate and boreal forests. Read more about The Montréal Process, the criteria and indicators, the member countries, and its history…
Spotlights
The 32nd Montréal Process Working Group will be meeting October 5-7, 2023 in Sydney, Australia: Save the Date (PDF, .25 MB)
Overview and country highlights from the Montréal Process, 2019: English (PDF, 10.4 MB), French (PDF, 13.5 MB), Spanish (PDF, 9.8 MB)
Australia’s State of the Forests Report 2018 (PDF, 27.1 MB)
Canada releases their latest State of the Forests report
The Montreal Process Fact Sheet: English (PDF, 1.1 MB), French (PDF, 1.3 MB) Japanese (PDF, 1.3 MB) Spanish (2.2 MB)
The Montréal Process, Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests, Fifth Edition, September 2015 English (PDF, 4.3 MB) Spanish (PDF, 1.0 MB)