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A resilient ITTO for turbulent times

Resilience has long been a buzzword in ITTO circles. For anyone concerned with tropical forests, it evokes sustainably managed, tree-rich ecosystems with the health and vibrancy to deliver timber and many other benefits over the long term, despite the impact of climate change and other stressors.

Now resilience is gaining wider significance for the Organization and its members, as economic and political uncertainty clouds the outlook for international trade in timber and related products and raises questions about the global pursuit of equitable and sustainable development.

Contents

  • Editorial

  • ITTC looks to the future

     by 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

     by 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?

     by 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

     by 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

     by 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

     by 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

     by 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

  • Recent editions

  • ITTO Meetings

  • Events

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