Country activities
Asia
China
TMT Component
Supporting SMEs and Importers of Tropical Timber for Better Understanding of CITES and the need to Comply with CITES Rules in China
Indonesia
Phase I
1. Assessing silvicultural system on ramin: Review on the current practice an re-vitalization of existing permanent sample plots
2. Exploratory assessment on the population distribution and potential uses of Non-Gonystylus bancanus species in Indonesia
3. Improving inventory design to estimate growing stock of ramin (Gonystylus bancanus) in Indonesia
4. National Workshop on Identification of information gaps towards the SFM of ramin and thematic programs to be included in the 2009 and 2010 Work Program of the ITTO-CITES Project- “Ensuring international trade in CITES-listed timber species is consistent with their sustainable management and conservation.”
5. Review on ramin harvest and trade: CITES-NDF implementation, Tri-national Task Force and trade data statistics monitoring
6. Asian Workshop of the ITTO-CITES Project on ensuring international trade in CITES-listed timber species is consistent with their conservation and management
Phase II
1. The assessment of ramin plantation requirement and the establishment of ramin genetic resources conservation gardens
2. Managing Agarwood plantation in Indonesia
3. Capacity building on seedling propagation ot techniques and awareness raising on CITES implementation and ramin roadmap
4. Promoting conservation of plant genetic resources of Aquilaria and Gyrinops species in Indoneisa
5. Development of a ramin conservation concept (Gonystylus spp.) for plantation forest concessions
6. Ensuring genetic diversity of ramin seed sources and ramin population from rooted cuttings
7. Establishment of an integrated agarwood cluster in Bintan Island, Indonesia
Malaysia
Phase I
1. Non-detriment findings report on Gonystylus bancanus – A quantitative assessment of G. bancanus in two selected permanent forests of Sarawak.
2. The quantification of dry and wet inland Gonystylus spp. (ramin), Aquilaria spp. (agarwood) and Intsia spp. (merbau) in Peninsular Malaysia.
3. Generation of spatial distribution maps of Gonystylus bancanus (ramin) using hyperspectral technology and determination of sustainable level of harvest of Ramin in production forests of Peninsular Malaysia.
4. The development of Gonystylus spp. (ramin) timber monitoring system using radio frequency identification (RFID) in Peninsular Malaysia.
5. Developing DNA database for Gonystylus bancanus in Sarawak.
6. National workshop on enforcement compliance for trade in ramin (Gonystylus spp)
- Activity summary EN
- Proceedings (Brief) EN (Full report is available upon request)
- Completion report EN
7. Sawn timber and veneer recovery study of ramin (Gonystylus bancanus) in Peninsular Malaysia
8. Regional Workshop on the Sharing of Findings from the Activities Implemented in Malaysia and Indonesia
Phase II
1. In vitro propogation of Gonystylus bancanus (Ramin) in Sarawak
2. Use of DNA for identification of Gonystylus species and timber geographical origin in Sarawak
3. Reproductive and genetic studies towards the conservation and management of Aquilaria malaccensis in Peninsular Malaysia
4. Development of an information database for the conservation and sustainable use of Gonystylus bancanus (Ramin) and Aquilaria malaccensis (Karas) in Malaysia
5. Capacity building of Forestry Department Peninsular Malaysia's staff in identifying Aquilaria to species level and in the grading level of Agarwood