Tropical Forest Update
Issue 35 No. 2
Building resilience
Tropical forestry’s resilience continues to be tested by, amongst others, regulatory shifts, economic uncertainty, and ecosystem pressures. Yet, encouragingly, the articles in this edition of Tropical Forest Update reveal that the sector continues to move and evolve in ways that strengthen its resilience for the future. From international conferences and regional dialogues to field projects, from technological innovation to trade reconfiguration, stakeholders across the tropics are adapting, ensuring forests and their value chains remain sustainable, competitive, and inclusive, with ITTO persisting in its vital supporting and enabling role.
Okan (Cylicodiscus gabunensis) timber used in an installation by Bois et Loisirs in the Mallet-Stevens
Gardens, Croix, France. © Denis Delequeuche (Bois et Loisirs)
Contents
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Editorial
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Shared challenges, regional perspectives
by ITTO SecretariatITTO recently deployed its Trade and Markets Day forum across the tropics to explore how the evolution of markets,
regulations and technology is reshaping the timber sector -
Strengthening Mayan communities and their forests
by Adi Estela Lazos RuízAn ITTO project combined research, business support and knowledge-sharing to advance the sustainable use of forests
in Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula -
Opportunities for tropical timber in a shifting world
by Octavio Enrique Carrasquilla Salas and José Ángel Rojas GamboaThe ongoing reconfiguration of international trade in tropical timber and forest products offers openings to make forest value chains more sustainable and equitable -
Tropix online: taking a key timber resource to the next level
by Jean GerardThe launch of the online version of the ITTO-backed Tropix database has made information on the key characteristics of
hundreds of timber species freely accessible to all -
Market trends
Tropical wood product imports into major consumer markets in 2025 began to reflect the impact of the shift in US trade
policy as well as the health of key sectors such as construction -
Mapping biodiversity in Mexico’s tropical forests
by Víctor Alexis Peña-LaraAn ITTO Fellowship has enabled a young researcher to gauge the three dimensions of biodiversity in the forests of the
Yucatán Peninsula -
Tropical and topical
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Recent editions
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Events
Okan (Cylicodiscus gabunensis) timber used in an installation by Bois et Loisirs in the Mallet-Stevens
Gardens, Croix, France. © Denis Delequeuche (Bois et Loisirs)
Full edition
The ITTO Tropical Forest Update is published quarterly in English, French and Spanish.
The French and Spanish editions are usually posted about one month after the English.
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