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Forest products of animal origin

Non-wood forest products (NWFP) are important good provided by forests. NWFP comprise a group of products derived from mushrooms and truffles, understory plants to tree products in many forms, but also including animals and animal products that are sourced from the forest. Products derived from forest animals take the form of foodstuffs such as game meat and honey but also includes non-food items such as trophies, hides, fur, feather, bones, silk, lac, musk, castoreum etc. Since the decline of wild fur trapping in the mid-20th century, game meat accounts for 96 % of traded wild animal products in Europe though there is some use of bristle (boar) and air (squirrel) in brushes and some manufacture of hides and leather as well as resources for medical purposes (e.g. marmot fat and deer musk). There are also animal products which are reared in the forest such as honey, game birds, fur farms and domestic livestock. Although many of these products are, according the definition, undisputedly NWFP they are seldom addressed in publications using NWFP in the title. This is perhaps because there is a long-standing three- way institutional distinction between ; forest management for timber production, game management concerned with sustainable hunting and conservation.

invasive species, game management, fisheries, beekeeping in the forest

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