Tropical Forest Update

Contents

• New forest treaty agreed

  

  Photo: M. Goldstick/ENB

  The agreement under which ITTO operates is re-negotiated, with some new features added

• What the negotiators think

  

  Photo: M. Goldstick/ENB

  The TFU asked three key negotiators of the ITTA, 2006 to present their views on the new agreement

• Brazil gets new forest law

  The country has adopted a law designed to promote responsible timber harvesting in national forests

• The logging of Tapajós

  

  Reduced impact logging is being applied in one of Brazil’s national forests

  By Rodrigo A. Pereira Jr and Deryck Pantoja Martins

• The people of Tapajós

  Local communities in the Tapajós National Forest are positive about logging but should be more involved in both management and the sharing of benefits

  By Carlos José Caetano Bacha and Luiz Carlos Estraviz Rodriguez

• Supplying France with value-added

  

  Photo: O. Pedersen

  France is open to new tropical timber species. But producers need to get organised

  By Pierre M. Desclos and Ole Pedersen

• The numbers game in Gabon

  

  Photo: I. Kouplevatskaya

  A series of ITTO projects have helped strengthen forest statistics in Gabon, but the full implementation of a national system requires more support from government

  By Gérard Buttoud

• Is teak improving?

  

  Photo: H. Nakata

  A study finds that some basic work is being done in Asia to improve teak growing stock, but
  not yet at a scale to impact timber production

  By Hiroshi Nakata and Keiya Isoda

• Out on a limb

  

  How ITTO began

• ITTO's recently funded projects

  The projects summarised here were financed at the 39th session of the International Tropical Timber Council in November 2005

• Fellowship report

  

  How much carbon do Ghana’s teak plantations sequester?

  By Samuel Asirifi Boateng

• On the conference circuit

  

  Reports on the 39th Session of the International Tropical Timber Council and the 6th Session of the United Nations Forum on Forests

• Recent editions

  

  New books and reports

• Topical and tropical

  

  Reports recent developments in tropical forestry

• Letters

  

  Response to reported rates of illegal logging and feedback on TFU 15/3

• Courses

  

  Short training courses for professionals in forestry and related disciplines

• Meetings

  

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