When you start to look into climate change it is quite scary, it seems to be more a reality now rather than a conspiracy. Climate change is starting to impact the world's forests more than ever, this calls for a need to manage forests, to make them more resilient to these changes. Forests are amazing in the way they work to help all aspects of life, they can enhance biodiversity, create clean air and water, support renewable resources and like discussed before reducing the impacts of climate change. 

Forests can help to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, they end up storing it in their roots, leaves, branches, trunks, and soil through a process that is known as carbon sequestration, they are the second largest global storehouse of carbon (after oceans). Globally forests can store the equivalent to about one tenth of carbon emissions projected for the first half of the century. Unmanaged forests are more prone to wildfires, which can release a huge amount of carbon into the atmosphere. 

Forests have a great relationship with water, both help each other to boost one another's qualities, the forests absorb water through their roots and release some back into the atmosphere in a process called transpiration. Forests can create rivers of water in the air that form clouds and produce rainfall. There have been many droughts across the world in areas with mass deforestation, this occurs especially in tropical forests. 

Forests across the world are home to 80% of the world's terrestrial biodiversity, which contains complex webs of organisms that include; plants, animals, also fungi and bacteria, many of these species that live in the forests cannot live anywhere else. When the forest cover is removed, the wildlife is deprived of habitat and they are able to survive. 

Some responsibly managed forests are also working forests, this is when harvesting occurs in sustainable rotations, to help open up new space and create early successional forest, also known as young forests. These forests have many species that depend on them so that they can survive, research has shown the declines in young forests have contributed to the decline in some pollinators and songbirds. They promote healthy levels of forest regeneration and are created by natural disasters like fires or storms. Harvesting can mimic these disturbances and can be performed in a way that manages for different age classes and for species that rely on the habitat. 

Biodiversity provides invaluable benefits to society like genetic diversity that gives us varied food sources, medicines, timber and non timber products, like oils, waxes, resins, fragrances, textile materials and dyes, outdoor recreation and tourism. Biodiversity is perhaps the most difficult forest ecosystem service for us to directly value, but its benefits are innumerable and critical to society.