Federal Act on Forest
(Forest Act, ForA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall provide fin­an­cial as­sist­ance for meas­ures that con­trib­ute to the con­ser­va­tion and im­prove­ment of bio­lo­gic­al di­versity in the forest, in par­tic­u­lar for:⁴⁵

a.

the pro­tec­tion and main­ten­ance of forest re­serves and oth­er eco­lo­gic­ally valu­able forest hab­it­ats;

b.⁴⁶

the fos­ter­ing of biod­iversity and ge­net­ic di­versity of the forest;

c.

the con­nectiv­ity of forest hab­it­ats;

d.

the con­ser­va­tion of tra­di­tion­al forms of forest man­age­ment;

e.⁴⁷

…

² …⁴⁸

³ The level of the fin­an­cial as­sist­ance is based on the sig­ni­fic­ance of the meas­ures in re­la­tion to bio­lo­gic­al di­versity and the ef­fect­ive­ness of the meas­ures.