Eleven years ago an article published in Scientific American sent shock waves through the tropical forestry community. Entitled Can Sustainable Management Save Tropical Forests?1, the article made a compelling case for the failure of sustainable forest management (sfm) in the tropics, primarily in terms of its inability to (up to that point in time) safeguard tropical forests’ immense biodiversity.
Tropical Forest Update
Issue 18 No 2
Strengthening diversity
Contents
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Updating the ITTO Biodiversity Guidelines
Photo:Fotonatura
ITTO and IUCN collaborate to produce new guidelines for conserving biodiversity in production forests
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RIL for biodiversity and carbon conservation
Photo: H. Matsubayashi
Deramakot forest shows positive conservation impacts of reduced impact logging
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Mapping Mbalmayo Forest
Remote sensing helps with the management of Cameroonian forest reserve
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Management and conservation of forest concession biodiversity
Photo: M. Borner
Evaluation of ITTO projects shows positive outcomes in North Congo
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Sustainable bamboo utilization in Thailand
Photo: F. Soriano
Long term improvements result from an ITTO project
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Collaborative forest management in a sustainable development unit
Photo: B.D. Agaloos, Jr.
An ITTO project in the Philippines promotes a multistakeholder approach to SFM
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Fellowship report
ITTO Fellowship funds research on forest management impacts in Costa Rica
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Recent Projects
Funding for the projects and pre-projects announced by ITTO in June 2008.
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Markets
Photo: R. M. Keogh
International pricing mechanism for plantation teak: a proposal to bring transparency to log markets
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Courses
Short training courses for professionals in forestry and related disciplines
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Recent editions
New books and reports
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Topical and Tropical
Recent developments in tropical forestry
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Meetings
A comprehensive listing of coming conferences relevant to sustainable tropical forest management
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