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.

Yokohama, Japan, 26 July 2022: ITTO has released four training modules on legal and sustainable tropical timber supply chains in the Congo Basin  aimed at expanding market access for tropical timber produced in the subregion and increasing the contributions of the sector to sustainable development, climate-change mitigation and other regional objectives.

Yokohama, Japan, 25 July 2022: Sustainable forestry can provide cost-effective solutions to the triple global crises on climate, biodiversity loss and pollution, all of which have been aggravated by recent armed conflicts, according to speakers at a side-event held earlier this month that fed into the 2022 High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development.

Yokohama, Japan, 15 July 2022: Since its establishment in 1989, the ITTO Fellowship Programme has enabled more than 1400 young and midcareer professionals from 50 countries to strengthen their expertise in tropical forestry and improve their career prospects. The next round of Fellowship applications is now open! The deadline is Thursday 1 September 2022 at 5pm (Japan Standard Time) for activities commencing after 1 January 2023. 

Yokohama, Japan, 13 July 2022: A new app developed with ITTO assistance has been launched in Indonesia to assist fire brigades in preventing and suppressing wildfires. Forest wildfire is a major threat to human safety, infrastructure and ecosystems in many parts of Indonesia, and the app will assist in its control by increasing the availability of real-time information for firefighters.

Yokohama, Japan, 29 June 2022: The tropics are home to extraordinary forests with the largest and most complex biological and cultural diversity while functioning as huge carbon stores. In celebration of the International Day of the Tropics, we describe some of ITTO’s work in three vital and vast tropical forest ecosystems—the Amazon, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia.