Yokohama, Japan, 27 September 2022: With their stunning beauty, immense biodiversity and cultural importance, sustainably managed tropical forests have huge potential for low-impact locally based ecotourism. In celebration of World Tourism Day, we describe some of ITTO’s work to encourage ecotourism ventures in local communities.

Accra, Ghana, 7 September 2022: A report written by teak experts recently released by ITTO presents best practices for planting, managing, harvesting and processing teak in the Mekong Subregion and demonstrating legality and sustainability along supply chains. An outcome of an ITTO project, the book will be essential reading for policymakers and practitioners involved in teak supply chains.

Yokohama, Japan, 6 September 2022: Wood is part of the answer to global challenges. It stores carbon and is energy-efficient and aesthetically pleasing. When derived from sustainably managed forests, it helps conserve biodiversity, protect water supplies and sustain livelihoods. The latest edition of the TFU describes initiatives that are strengthening tropical timber’s green credentials.

Yokohama, Japan, 18 August 2022: An evaluation of ten ITTO projects in West and Central Africa established that the projects had “important positive impacts on forests, forest management and local communities” in the countries in which they were implemented, reports a policy brief published by ITTO this week.

Yokohama, 12 August 2022: This year’s theme of International Youth Day, Intergenerational Solidarity: Creating a World for All Ages, stresses the importance of leveraging the potential of all generations to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. Young people are the future custodians of tropical forests; ITTO is investing in them in diverse ways, including through its Fellowship Programme.

Yokohama, 9 August 2022: On International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples, ITTO reiterates its commitment to fully recognizing and supporting the ownership, control, customary rights and role of local communities and Indigenous Peoples on forest land and resources. The theme of the Day this year is the role of indigenous women in the preservation and transmission of traditional knowledge.