Resources

Browse and download our latest resources related to mangroves. Simply scroll down the list to browse the available files or click on the links below to jump directly to your category of interest.

News releases
New Work Program, Action Plan on Council Agenda

5 November 2007

Yokohama, Japan
Tropical deforestation, wildlife trafficking on Council agenda

6 November 2006

Yokohama, Japan
Most Extensive Survey Ever of World's Remaining Tropical Forests Reveals Upward Trend in "Sustainable" Management Yet 95 Percent of Tropical Forests Remain at Risk

25 May 2006

Mexico City, Mexico
US$13 million in new funds for tropical forests

12 November 2005

Yokohama, Japan
ITTO commits another US$10 million for tropical forests

20 December 2004

Yokohama, Japan
Council delivers a further US$7.6 million for field action in tropical forests

8 November 2003

Yokohama, Japan
Transboundary parks lauded for peace, conservation benefits

4 March 2003

Gland, Switzerland and Yokohama, Japan (IUCN/ITTO)
ITTO showcases tropical forest success stories

27 August 2002

Johannesburg, South Africa
Cameroon minister praises ITTO support for Yaoundé process

28 June 2002

Yaoundé, Cameroon
ITTO must do more to combat illegal timber trade and enforce forest laws: Brazil's Minister of Environment and Forests

27 May 2002

Yokohama, Japan
ITTO takes action in Africa

18 May 2002

Denpasar, Indonesia
Japan, Switzerland, US back major gorilla sanctuary

5 December 2001

Yokohama, Japan
ITTO to send mission to Congo Basin

2 June 2001

Yaoundé, Cameroon
ITTO backs west African gorilla sanctuary

10 April 2001

Yokohama, Japan
Illegal logging: reinforce existing reserves first

14 December 2000

Yokohama, Japan
ITTO project to seek new funds for sustainable forest management

20 September 2000

Yokohama, Japan
ITTO acts to protect tree genes

20 September 2000

Yokohama, Japan
Transboundary reserves receive US$2 million boost

30 May 2000

Lima, Peru
Policy papers & guidelines
ITTO guidelines on the conservation of biological diversity in tropical production forests

September 1993

The principal objective of these guidelines is to optimize the contribution of timber-production tropical forests to the conservation of biological diversity.
Reports
Biodiversity Management and Conservation in a Forest Concession Adjacent to a Totally Protected Area (Nouabale-Ndoki National Park), Northern Congo (Congo)

30 November 2007
Status of tropical forest management 2005

2006

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of the forest management situation in all 33 of ITTO's producer member countries. Using information submitted by the countries themselves and supplemented by data from a wide range of other sources, it addresses the policy and institutional settings in each country, the approaches taken to the allocation and management of resources, and the status of management of those resources.
Overall evaluation of ITTO transboundary community participation projects (Ecuador, Indonesia, Peru and Thailand) in biodiversity conservation

May 2005

Ex-post evaluation of four ITTO projects
In situ and ex situ conservation of commercial tropical trees

2001

This volume represents the proceedings of the International Conference on Ex situ and In situ Conservation of Commercial Tropical Trees held 11-13 June 2001 on the campus of Gadjah Mada University (GMU) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The conference was planned and organized as an activity of ITTO Project PD 16/96 Rev.4 (F).
TFU_Articles
Updating the ITTO Biodiversity Guidelines

2008 No 2
RIL for biodiversity and carbon conservation

2008 No 2
Management and conservation of forest concession biodiversity

2008 No 2
Promoting SFM in Africa

2008 No 1
On the conference circuit

2007 No 2
Topical and tropical

2007 No 2
Meetings

2007 No 2
Implementing ramin's CITES listing

2007 No 1
Mahogany catch 22

2007 No 1
Recent editions

2007 No 1
Topical and tropical

2007 No 1
Meetings

2007 No 1
Meetings

2006 No 4
How to handle a hotspot

2006 No 3
On the conference circuit

2006 No 3
Recent editions

2006 No 3
Meetings

2006 No 3
Palms deserve a big hand

2006 No 2
On the conference circuit

2006 No 2
Recent editions

2006 No 2
Courses

2006 No 2
ITTO's recently funded projects

2005 No 4
Meetings

2005 No 4
On the threshold of something special

2005 No 3
Topical and tropical

2005 No 3
Meetings

2005 No 3
Life after logging

2005 No 2
Meetings

2005 No 2
Recent editions

2005 No 1
Meetings

2005 No 1
The incredible Condor

2004 No 4
IUCN sets its agenda

2004 No 4
Recent editions

2004 No 4
Out on a limb

2004 No 2
Council’s latest grants

2004 No 1
Fellowship report

2004 No 1
On the conference circuit

2004 No 1
Recent editions

2004 No 1
Council outcomes

2003 No 4
On the conference circuit

2003 No 4
Conservation on the frontier

2003 No 2
Is it worth the effort and expense?

2003 No 2
Re-uniting communities with their landscapes

2003 No 2
Defusing the transboundary minefield

2003 No 2
The Condor corridor

2003 No 2
Thinking outside the box

2003 No 2
Out on a limb

2003 No 2
Local priorities and biodiversity

2003 No 1
Point of view

2002 No 4
Forest certification and biodiversity

2002 No 3
Zoning the forest

2001 No 4
How far have we come?

2001 No 4
Fellowship report

2001 No 4
Genetic conservation and plantations

2001 No 3
Brochures
Keeping tropical forests

2005

This brochure, produced for ITTO's display at the 2005 World Exposition in Aichi, Japan, gives an overview of ITTO and its activities and strategies.
A meeting of minds

September 2003

Field practitioners recently exchanged views on the challenges of conservation in ecosystems that cross international borders. They agreed that transboundary conservation is a powerful concept, able to help protect biodiversity, reunite divided peoples, strengthen peace, protect catchments – and much more. The challenge, they said, is to make the concept work.
Not by thoughts alone

April 2002

The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Government of Congo are working together to protect the forest home of lowland gorillas and other threatened wildlife. Good intentions, put into action.