Actualités des Forêts Tropicales

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• Editorial

• ITTC looks to the future

   par ITTO Secretariat
  As ITTO navigates a period of turbulence in the tropical timber sector, its governing body made critical decisions on leadership and the fundamental basis of the Organization

• Surveillance and sustainability in Thailand’s borderlands

   par Chakrit Na Takuathung, Yongyut Trisurat and Tetra Yanuariadi
  A recently completed ITTO project has strengthened monitoring and livelihoods to make the use of forests near the Thai border with Myanmar more sustainable

• Can balsa lift Costa Rican plantations?

   par Olman Murillo, Yorleny Badilla, Róger Moya and Mario Guevara
  To boost commercial reforestation in Costa Rica, an ITTO project looked at the viability of balsa species and their potential genetic improvement

• Getting the numbers right

   par Paula Sarigumba
  Frances Maplesden, co-author of ITTO’s new publication, Tropical Veneer and Plywood: Description, Properties and Conversion Factors, explains why accurate metrics matter in the global tropical plywood trade

• Tapping the ecotourism potential of Malaysia’s tropical forests

   par Evelyn Jugi
  As An ITTO Project in the Upper Baram region in Sarawak, Malaysia, is inspiring communities to see rich forest ecosystems as a source of sustainable livelihoods

• Market trends

   par Mike Adams
  Tropical timber trade data for 2024 show how troubled housing sectors in major economies are clouding the outlook for timber producers

• Conserving the dazzling orchids of Myanmar

   par Ye Lwin Aung
  An ITTO Fellow developed an identification guide to the many orchid species found in the tropical forests and other areas of Myanmar

• Tropical and tropical

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