Tropical Forest Update

Contents

• Timber and the rebuilding of Liberia

  

  Photo: N. Sizer

  Liberia's forest sector could play a crucial role in the country's post-war reconstruction. But it needs help

• On the threshold of something special

  

  Photo: G. Wetterberg

  Four recently evaluated ITTO projects show that creative approaches to conservation on international borders can benefit local people, biodiversity and cooperation between countries–but long-term commitment is needed

  By Marc J. Dourojeanni

• C&I made easier

  

  ITTO publishes a new edition of its criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management

• From paper to the forest

  

  Photo: R. Eba’a

  A six-year project designed to promote sustainable forest management in Africa through the use of criteria and indicators has taken some important first steps towards field implementation

  By Richard Eba'a Atyi and Steven Johnson

• Brazil develops national C&I

  

  Photo: M. Schmid

  The development of criteria and indicators has advanced the cause of certification in the country

  By Marcelo Schmid and Steven Johnson

• Forest dwellers find urban life stressful

  

  Photo: Herwasono
  Soedjito

  A new study suggests that the move from forest to town has its downside for Indonesia's Punan

  By Greg Clough

• ITTO's new projects

  The projects summarised here were financed at the 38th session of the International Tropical Timber Council in June 2005

• Made in Italy, grown in the tropics?

  The high-value Italian furniture industry uses only a modest amount of timber from the tropics. Producers have some work to do to increase their share

  By A. Baudin, M. Flinkman and H-O. Nordvall

• Out on a limb

  Delegates meeting at the United Nations fail to agree on the future of the international arrangement on forests

  By Amha bin Buang

• Fellowship report

  

  Increasing public awareness about Colombia's threatened magnolia species is a key to their survival

  By Cesar Velasquez-Rua and Marcela Serna-Gonzalez

• On the conference circuit

  

  Reports on the Philippine Forestry Development Forum, the International Workshop on Promoting Permanent Sample Plots in Asia and the Pacific Region, and the ITTO/FAO International Conference on Tropical Plywood

• Recent editions

  

  New books and reports

• Topical and tropical

  

  Reports recent developments in tropical forestry

• Courses

  

  Short training courses for professionals in forestry and related disciplines

• Meetings

  

  A comprehensive listing of coming conferences relevant to sustainable tropical forest management