This article lists types of formally designated forests in three subgroups: by ownership, protection status, and use.
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- Ancient woodland - formal designation used in the United Kingdom
- Biosphere reserve - as designated by UNESCO
- Biological reserve
- Conservation reserve - used in the United States' Conservation Reserve Program
- Forest circle - an administrative area including protected or resource-managed forests, used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
- Forest division - a non-overlapping subdivision of a forest circle, used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
- Forest protected area - formal designation of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and the World Commission on Protected Areas[2]
- Forest range - a non-overlapping subdivision of a forest division, used in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh
- Forest reserve or preserve
- High-biodiversity wilderness area - an International Union for the Conservation of Nature classification
- High conservation value area - developed by the Forest Stewardship Council as a means of defining regions with a specific environmental, socioeconomic, biodiversity or landscape value for use within forestry management certification systems
- High conservation value forest - a FSC designation for forests meeting criteria specified in its "Principles and Criteria of Forest Stewardship"
- Intact forest landscape - NGO-developed term used in forest monitoring
- Old-growth forest - in Australia, formal protection category in the Regional Forest Agreement
- Private reserve of natural heritage - designation used in Brazil
- Protected forest - used in Cambodia and India
- Protection forest - used in France, Germany, Italy and elsewhere in Europe, particularly in mountainous areas (e.g. as a protection against avalanches)
- Reserve forest - used to designate protected forest areas in British India; used today in Bangladesh, India, Kazakhstan and Pakistan to refer to forests accorded a special degree of protection
- Sacred grove - protected in Ghana, Nigeria and possibly elsewhere
- Wilderness forest
- Wildlife forest
- Wildlife reserve
- World Heritage Forest - formally recognized for special biophysical or cultural significance; administered by UNESCO
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