ITTO project promotes better utilization of Peruvian Amazon forests

2013-10-21

Wooden doors and garden furniture of Terminalia oblonga (Yacushapana amarilla). Photo: Mayra L. Espinoza/AIDER

In 2011, ITTO financed the project PD 512/08 Rev.2 (I) “Industrial utilization and marketing of ten potential timber species from secondary and residual primary forests” in Peru. This project has provided information for the better management and utilization of secondary and primary forests of the Peruvian Amazon.