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01/01/2013 FAO, Forests and Climate Change: Working with Countries to Mitigate and Adapt to Climate Change Through Sustainable Forest Management
This publication summarises the work that FAO is undertaking, with its partners, to assist countries ... 		FAO

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10/11/2012 Forest, Trees, and Woodlands in Africa: An Action Plan for World Bank Engagement
The purpose of this paper is to outline an approach for Bank engagement in forests, trees, and woodlands ... 		The World Bank

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23/09/2012 State of the World's Forests 2012: Forests at the Heart of a Sustainable Future
The tenth edition of FAO’s “State of the World’s Forests 2012 (SOFO 2012)” endeavors ... 		FAO

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04/09/2012 Wood for Good: Solutions for Deforestation-Free Wood Products (2012)
Wood from tropical forests is used to create products in our everyday lives, including furniture, paper, ... 		Union of Concerned Scientists, US

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01/07/2012 Inari: A Proposal for Financing Sustainable Land Use at Scale
Whether in agriculture, forestry or elsewhere, the challenge with sustainable land use is not so much ... 		Lou Munden, Peter Holmgren, Rosalind Reeve, Peter Riggs, Ravi Prabhu, Benedick Bowie, Benjamin Deljurie, Sunil Subbakrishna & Emelyne Cheney

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01/07/2012 Sustaining Conservation Values in Selectively Logged Tropical Forests: the Attained and the Attainable
Most tropical forests outside protected areas have been or will be selectively logged so it is essential ... 		Conservation Letters (Francis E. Putz, Pieter A. Zuidema, Timothy Synnott, Marielos Pena-Claros, Michelle A. Pinard, Douglas Sheil, Jerome K. Vanclay, Plinio Sist, Sylvie Gourlet-Fleury, Bronson Griscom, John Palmer, & Roderick Zagt)

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30/06/2012 2012 Study on Forest Financing
The Advisory Group on Finance (AGF) of the Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF) has released a ... 		CPF (Collaborative Partnership on Forests)

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26/06/2012 Global Forest Governance: Legal Concepts and Policy Trends
This book identifies the fundamental legal principles and the governance requirements of sustainable ... 		Rowena Maguire, Queensland University of Technology, Australia

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25/06/2012 Timberland in Institutional Investment Portfolios: Can Significant Investment Reach Emerging Markets?
This study examines current investment patterns in forestry. The context for the study is the emerging ... 		FAO, Tropenbos International & Natural Resources Canada

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05/06/2012 Sustainable Forest Management Factsheets
The CPF Working Group on Advancing a Common Message on SFM has released a set of eight fact sheets on ... 		CPF (Collaborative Partnership on Forests)

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01/04/2012 Forests for a Greener Future: Forest Policy Brief
With only 0.2 hectares of forest per person, the Asia-Pacific region is, per capita, the least forested ... 		Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study, FAO

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17/02/2012 Indonesia's Moratorium on New Forest Concessions: Key Findings and Next Steps
This Working Paper analyzes Indonesia’s moratorium on new licenses in primary natural forests and ... 		World Resources Institute (WRI)

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20/01/2012 Are We Approaching ‘Peak Timber’ in the Tropics?
Over the past few decades, tropical timber production in many Asia–Pacific countries has been akin ... 		Biological Conservation (Philip Shearman, Jane Bryan &William F. Laurance)

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01/12/2011 Cost-effective Conservation: Calculating Biodiversity and Logging Trade-offs in Southeast Asia
The Sundaland Biodiversity Hotspot of Southeast Asia is widely regarded as one of the most imperiled ... 		Conservation Letters (Brendan Fisher, David P. Edwards, Trond H. Larsen, Felicity A. Ansell, Wayne W. Hsu, Carter S. Roberts & David S. Wilcove)

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27/11/2011 WWF Living Forests Report Chapter 3: Forests and Climate
WWF envisions a world where humanity lives within the Earth's ecological limits and shares its resources ... 		WWF

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10/11/2011 Climate Change for Forest Policy-Makers: An Approach for Integrating Climate Change into National Forest Programmes in Support of Sustainable Forest Management
The critical role of forests in climate change mitigation and adaptation is now widely recognized. Actions ... 		FAO

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01/09/2011 WWF Living Forests Report Chapter 2: Forests and Energy
WWF envisions a world where energy consumption is reduced and supplied 100 per cent from renewable sources ... 		WWF

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16/08/2011 Effectiveness of Strict vs. Multiple Use Protected Areas in Reducing Tropical Forest Fires: A Global Analysis Using Matching Methods
Protected areas (PAs) cover a quarter of the tropical forest estate. Yet there is debate over the effectiveness ... 		PLoS (Andrew Nelson & Kenneth Chomitz)

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01/07/2011 Pandering to the Loggers
Global Witness examines the Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN), WWF’s scheme to promote sustainable ... 		Global Witness

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09/06/2011 Status of Tropical Forest Management 2011
This report, two years in the making, provides a comprehensive assessment of progress being made towards ... 		ITTO

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07/06/2011 ForestWatch Issue 161 and LBA Update
In this issue:

* Cart before the horse: Growing demand dictates sustainable forest management
* Governments ... 		FERN

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05/06/2011 Forests in a Green Economy: A Synthesis
Investing a relatively small amount each year in the forestry sector could halve deforestation, create ... 		UNEP

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27/04/2011 WWF Living Forests Report Chapter 1: Forests for a Living Planet
During the 2011 International Year of Forests, WWF’s Living Forests Report is part of a year‑long ... 		WWF

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27/04/2011 Options for REDD+ Voluntary Certification to Ensure Net GHG Benefits, Poverty Alleviation, Sustainable Management of Forests and Biodiversity Conservation
The researchers' objective was to compare and evaluate the practical applicability to REDD+ of ten ... 		MDPI (Eduard Merger, Michael Dutschke & Louis Verchot)

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02/02/2011 State of the World's Forests 2011
This ninth biennial issue of State of the World’s Forests is being launched at the outset of 2011, ... 		FAO

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01/02/2011 Managing Forests for Climate Change
This report examines the role of forests and sustainable forest management in climate change mitigation ... 		FAO

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01/01/2011 Forests for Food Security and Livelihood Sustainability: Policy Problems and Opportunities for Small Farmers in Nepal
In Nepal, many rural households need access to public forest resources to complement private resources ... 		Faculty of Commerce, Lincoln University, Canterbury, New Zealand (Bhubaneswor Dhakal, Hugh Bigsby, & Ross Cullen)

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26/11/2010 Revision of Annex 2 and Annex 3 of the PEFC Technical Document
The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), whose standards govern the certification ... 		PEFC Council

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20/09/2010 ETFRN News 51: Biodiversity Conservation in Certified Forests
The role of logging in the loss and degradation of tropical forest has become an issue of popular concern ... 		ETFRN (European Tropical Forest Research Network)

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01/01/2010 SFI 2010-2014 Program
The SFI 2010-2014 Standard promotes sustainable forest management through 14 core principles, 20 objectives, ... 		SFI (Sustainable Forestry Initiative)

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01/01/2010 Global Sustainable Timber Supply and Demand
Industrial timber use has provided timber revenue that has helped make timber supply and demand more ... 		Peter J Ince, US Forest Service

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02/10/2009 Trick or Treat? REDD, Development and Sustainable Forest Management
The ability of the negotiators under the UNFCCC to achieve a robust agreement on REDD, one that is not ... 		Global Witness

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01/10/2009 Protected Area Effectiveness in Reducing Tropical Deforestation: A Global Analysis of the Impact of Protection Status
The authors of this report analysed remote sensing imagery across the entire tropical biome and compared ... 		Independent Evaluation Group Evaluation Brief 7, The World Bank (Andrew Nelson & Kenneth M. Chomitz)

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01/01/2008 Investment in the Liberian Forest Sector: A roadmap to legal forest operations in Liberia
Briefing document to explain why the reforms were necessary and how logging will be conducted under new ... 		Forest Trends with the Forestry Development Authority of Liberia (John Woods, Arthur G Blundell, Robert Simpson)

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NEWS

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06/06/2013 ‘Plastic wood’ is no green guarantee
Ishmael Tirado watches as his fellow construction workers rebuild the Steeplechase Pier, a central feature ... 		Nature

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19/04/2013 UN-backed partnership helps Kenyans protect forests, improve livelihoods
A United Nations-backed project in Kenya is protecting forests and wildlife, as well as providing alternative ... 		UN News Centre

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17/04/2013 Private sector emerges as key potential funder of sustainable forest management
As countries around the world struggle to find the necessary funds to sustainably manage their forests, ... 		UN News Centre

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10/04/2013 Healthy forests ‘crucial for economic development’
UN member states will meet in Istanbul over the coming days to discuss the role of forests in ensuring ... 		Blue & Green Tomorrow

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08/03/2013 Protected Areas Successfully Prevent Deforestation in Amazon Rainforest
Ann Arbor — Strictly protected areas such as national parks and biological reserves have been more ... 		Newwise

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01/03/2013 Welsh charity saves an area of rainforest the size of Wales
Welsh campaigners have protected an area of rainforest the size of Wales, after campaigners hit their ... 		The Guardian

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28/11/2012 Social fencing programs up for illegal logging ‘hot spots’
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is looking to implement social fencing programs ... 		Business Mirror, Philippines

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15/11/2012 As Myanmar opens to world, fate of its forests is on the line
Years of sanctions against Myanmar’s military regime helped protect its extensive wild lands. But ... 		Yale Environment 360

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10/11/2012 Managing Africa’s forests for economic growth and climate resilience
Washington - Forest areas cover 23 percent of Africa’s surface area, an estimated 675 million hectares ... 		The World Bank

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06/11/2012 Timber export ban needs forestry reform
The Burmese government’s plan to completely ban the export of timber in 2014 in a bid to stop the ... 		The Irrawaddy, Burma

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12/10/2012 Research program joins forces with the United Nations to help world meet 2020 deforestation goals
Hyderabad, India - A leading research program has agreed to join forces with the United Nations Convention ... 		CIFOR Forests Blog

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20/09/2012 Forest Fire Response Project: World Bank continues its support to sustainable forestry management and effective protection of the environment in Russia
Washington - The World Bank’s Board of Directors today approved a US$ 40 million loan to co-finance ... 		The World Bank

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11/09/2012 WB expresses concern over increasing deforestation in Bangladesh
... 		Energy Bangla, Bangladesh

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09/09/2012 Bonn negotiations make progress toward legally binding agreement on forests
The Second Session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee for a Legally Binding Agreement on ... 		IISD Biodiversity Policy & Practice

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07/09/2012 Place forests under local control to increase incomes and sustainability
Jeju Island, Republic of Korea - To increase the incomes of many of the billion forest-dependent people ... 		IUCN

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04/09/2012 Report offers solutions to expand sustainable tropical wood production
Washington - The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) today released a report, Wood ... 		ENews Park Forest, Chicago, US

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27/08/2012 In Bolivia, a battle over a highway and a way of life
Growing conflicts over development in South America have come to a head in Bolivia, where indigenous ... 		Yale Environment 360

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22/08/2012 Human society surpasses 'nature's budget' today
As of today, August 22nd, humanity has overshot the world's annual ecological budget, according ... 		Mongabay.com

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20/08/2012 Namibia: Governor advocates timber quota
Rundu — There is an urgent need for the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry (MAWF) to come ... 		allAfrica.com

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15/08/2012 End in sight for Tasmania's forest wars
Marathon talks to end Tasmania's forest wars are approaching final agreement after recovering from ... 		The Age, Australia

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23/07/2012 New forestry policy aims to curb fires, illegal cutting
In 2010, when devastating wildfires broke out in western Russia and saw Moscow covered in a sea of suffocating ... 		The Moscow News, Russia

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21/07/2012 Reforms needed in forestry sector
The deputy head of the Viet Nam Administration of Forestry, Ha Cong Tuan, spoke to Viet Nam News about ... 		Viet Nam News

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19/07/2012 Experts: sustainable logging in rainforests impossible
Industrial logging in primary tropical forests that is both sustainable and profitable is impossible, ... 		Mongabay.com

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28/06/2012 Conservation areas failing to protect forests better than logging concessions in Sumatra
Areas zoned for conservation suffered deforestation rates similar to logging concessions in Sumatra between ... 		Mongabay.com

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26/06/2012 Communities are not companies: New approach needed for community managed forests
Rio de Janeiro - Models for smallholder and community forest management need to be rethought if certification ... 		CIFOR Forests Blog

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21/06/2012 Cash cows, disputes over how to define sustainable development around UN summit
Rio Claro, Brazil — The cash cows on Carlos Marques’ farm used to be nothing but that: herds ... 		The Washington Post, US

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18/06/2012 Sustainable forests key to meet development goals – UN report
The world's forests have a major role to play in the transition to a greener economy, but governments ... 		UN News Centre

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05/06/2012 Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) charts a course to world-class industry standards in sustainable business
Sustainability Roadmap sees HCVF protection and carbon assessments for all plantations to address climate ... 		MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal

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05/06/2012 Palm oil giant moves forward on zero deforestation initiative
One of the world's largest palm oil companies has become the first to identify and disclose high ... 		Mongabay.com

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29/05/2012 Ghana: Illegal saw millers provide 80 percent of market demand
Kumasi — A national consultative workshop on the draft procurement policy on timber and timber ... 		allAfrica.com

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24/05/2012 Africa: Why we need laws to protect what's left of our forests
Opinion piece by Tom Picken, Global Witness

International efforts to protect forests and the people ... 		allAfrica.com

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15/05/2012 Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) announces new policies on high conservation value forest
Jakarta - Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP) has announced its new High Conservation Value Forest policies ... 		APP

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14/05/2012 Indonesia: Forests remain a source of conflict
Bangkok - The world’s largest producer of teak, an Indonesian state-owned company on the island ... 		IRIN News

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10/05/2012 Can loggers be conservationists?
Last year researchers took the first ever publicly-released video of an African golden cat (Profelis ... 		Mongabay.com

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09/05/2012 New national forestry management standard out In Zimbabwe
Harare - The Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ) on Tuesday launched a new certification standard ... 		Bernama, Malaysia

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08/05/2012 In securing Amazon, Brazil must balance development and sustainability
In one of several military operations that have been launched over the past year to tackle illegal gold ... 		World Politics Review

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03/05/2012 Rebirth control: lessons learned from 90 years of rainforest regeneration [including slide show]
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - There are macaques everywhere—climbing on the rocks, grooming one another ... 		Scientific American

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30/04/2012 How to make stronger trade links between UK and Indonesia a reality
Earlier this month, many of us were among the Indonesian business community which welcomed British Prime ... 		Purwadi Soeprihanto, Executive Director, Association of Indonesian Forest Concessionaires (Letter)

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13/04/2012 Zimbabwe: Standard ZWS 923 - 2012 now out
National standards body, the Standards Association of Zimbabwe (SAZ), has announced the release of the ... 		allAfrica.com

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11/04/2012 Chocolate: A sweet solution to tropical deforestation?
Editor’s Note: Rane Cortez works for The Nature Conservancy and is based in Belem, Brazil. She ... 		National Geographic

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10/04/2012 Equatorial Guinea participates in Global Environment Facility project for sustainable forestry
Malabo, Equatorial Guinea - An effort of the Central African Forest Commission (COMIFAC) to conserve ... 		MarketWatch, The Wall Street Journal

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05/04/2012 Probe into Forestry Tas over-cutting claims
Forestry Tasmania's harvesting practices are under review after allegations the state-owned company ... 		ABC News, Australia

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05/04/2012 Brazil can eliminate deforestation by 2020, says governor of giant Amazon state
Long seen as a pariah for its high rate of deforestation, the world is starting to look to the Brazilian ... 		Mongabay.com

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05/04/2012 Sustainable forest management
According to the Liberia Social Audit Report of 2011, more than 1,084,912 hectares of forestland have ... 		Daily Observer, Liberia

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05/04/2012 Cameroon: GEF grant to achieve sustainable development for local communities in the Ngoyla-Mintom forest
Washington – Today the World Bank Board of Executive Directors approved a US$3.5 million grant ... 		The World Bank

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03/04/2012 Brazil forges forward on path to sustainable forest development
Brazil is forging forward towards its sustainable forest development goal, with many ministers and scientists ... 		CIFOR Forests Blog

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30/03/2012 Beyond cattle: family farms provide a good life for people and nature in the Amazon
Editor’s Note: Rane Cortez works for The Nature Conservancy and is based in Belem, Brazil. She ... 		National Geographic

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26/03/2012 New research can save tropical forests
Scientists from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have investigated how much carbon the natural forests ... 		Physorg.com

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17/03/2012 Drilling for oil in Eden: initiative to save Amazon rainforest in Ecuador is uncertain
Quito, Ecuador— The most biologically diverse habitat in the western hemisphere, the Yasuní ... 		Scientific American blog

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07/03/2012 Gambia: CU introduces new initiative to tackle illegal logging and deforestation
The Gambian-based NGO, Concern Universal (CU), is to roll out a new programme, aimed at utilising Gambian ... 		allAfrica.com

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28/02/2012 The Brazilian rainforest: caught between biodiversity and business
Brazil is exporting more and more agricultural produce: soya beans and beef in particular, but also corn, ... 		Science Daily

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22/02/2012 Uganda: Law on timber trade in offing
Traders in illegal timber and charcoal will stand trial in court should a new law in offing by the Ministry ... 		allAfrica.com

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22/02/2012 Forest witnesses show how Olympics and Southend pier link to Congo
People affected by illegal logging in the Democratic Republic of Congo have told UK politicians how the ... 		WWF

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18/02/2012 Ghana delegation visits Guyana to learn about Sustainable Forestry Inititative
Seeking to learn more about Guyana’s Chainsaw Milling Project, a sustainable forestry initiative, ... 		Caribbean Journal

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17/02/2012 SPC book on Pacific forests now available online
A landmark book on the forests of the Pacific Islands, produced by the Secretariat of the Pacific Community ... 		Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC)

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16/02/2012 Busting the forest myths: people as part of the solution
The long-held contention that rural forest communities are the prime culprits in tropical forest destruction ... 		Yale Environment 360

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09/02/2012 Efforts needed to reach emissions target
The Indonesian government’s target to cut emissions by 26 percent before 2020 under the Reducing ... 		The Jakarta Post, Indonesia

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09/02/2012 UN wraps up year of forests by highlighting their social and economic value
The United Nations today wrapped up its year-long campaign to raise awareness on the importance of forests ... 		UN News Centre

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06/02/2012 Flannery in-depth on PNG's logging boom
Late last week, Radio Australia revealed new figures which showed forest clearance on controversial land ... 		ABC Radio Australia

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02/02/2012 Forest conservation policies: what works and what doesn’t
Policymakers looking to reduce deforestation in their countries have the right tools to do so today, ... 		Eco-Business.com

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25/01/2012 Logging of primary rainforests not ecologically sustainable, argue scientists
Tropical countries may face a risk of 'peak timber' as continued logging of rainforests exceeds ... 		Mongabay.com

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24/01/2012 'Peak timber' concerns in tropics
Current tropical timber practices are not sustainable and nations should consider the "implications ... 		BBC News

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19/01/2012 Indonesia to set aside 45% of Kalimantan for conservation
Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY) on Thursday announced a regulation that would protect ... 		Mongabay.com

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11/01/2012 Vietnam’s sustainable forest target deemed unattainable
A forest development program of the agriculture ministry has a target of making around one-third of the ... 		VietNamNet Bridge

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31/12/2011 Praise for Sabah’s forestry policy growing popular
Hats off: Short-term unsustainable logging is out and long-term management is in.

Sabah is fast becoming ... 		New Straits Times, Malaysia

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21/12/2011 FOREST EUROPE and UNECE/FAO launch interactive database on indicators of sustainable forest management in Europe
Geneva - A web-based resource tool based on the joint FOREST EUROPE/ECE/FAO State of Europe's Forests ... 		UNECE (United Nations Economic Commission for Europe)

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05/12/2011 Africa's shrinking forests need urgent help, climate change talks hear
Forests take up a huge amount of the continent, but are one of Africa's most misunderstood and undervalued ... 		allAfrica.com

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28/11/2011 Izabella Teixeira and Marina Silva: ‘No trade-off’ to balance growth and conservation
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27/11/2011 Action now could double forests saved
Durban, South Africa – It’s possible to reduce deforestation to near zero by 2020, but delaying ... 		WWF

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20/11/2011 Markets drive conservation in Central Africa
Madrid, Spain – Certification has shown that commercial forestry can co-exist with conservation ... 		WWF

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16/11/2011 Healthy national and international markets are essential for sustaining forests
The Collaborative Partnership on Forests (CPF), an international consortium of 14 organizations, secretariats ... 		Collaboarative Partnership for Forests (CPF)

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16/11/2011 Can Indonesia grow its economy and keep its forests?
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s commitment to dedicate the last three years his term to delivering ... 		Climate Spectator

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14/10/2011 A green economy: Is it possible?
Next year is Rio+20. In 1992, leaders of the world gathered in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to agree on a ... 		The Jakarta Post

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07/10/2011 Forest conference makes green economy recommendations to Rio+20
The Conference on Forests in a Green Economy ... 		IISD Reporting Services

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28/09/2011 Timber from virgin forests down: Zulkifli
The proportion of Indonesian timber coming from virgin forests is now at 30 percent and dropping, a figure ... 		The Jakarta Globe

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27/09/2011 GFTN: responsible forestry must be the norm by 2020
Everyone involved in forest management and related trades must help bring an end to illegal logging by ... 		WWF

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27/09/2011 Indonesia president vows to protect forests
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Tuesday stated his commitment to ensure sustainable development ... 		The Jakarta Globe

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17/09/2011 Welsh generosity helps Size of Wales rainforest drive
People in Wales are doing their bit to help preserve rainforests in east Africa from deforestation. ... 		BBC News

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09/09/2011 European forest sector calls for genuine common policy
It is urgent to act internationally to protect forests, which are guardians of the climate, protect soils ... 		Europolitics

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08/09/2011 Saving ancient walnut forests in the valleys of Central Asia
The former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan is home to some of the world’s largest remaining forests ... 		Yale Environment 360

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07/09/2011 Think tank warns about flaws in sustainable forestry scheme
The UK-based International Institute for Environment and Development has issued a warning that tropical ... 		Just Means

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16/08/2011 Sustainable forest use better for reducing deforestation?
Protected areas are effective at reducing tropical deforestation, according to a study ... 		Ecosystem Marketplace

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01/08/2011 Study suggests deforestation not correlated with industrial roundwood harvest
Researchers at the USDA Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory (FPL), have determined that the lowest ... 		Forest Products Laboratory, US Department of Agriculture

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16/06/2011 Ministers launch negotiations for a legally binding agreement on forests in Europe
The protection and sustainable management of Europe’s forests requires a stable and efficient platform ... 		Forest Europe

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10/06/2011 Armenian environmentalists work out programs aiming to reduce illegal logging
Environmentalists are warning that in Armenia illegal logging continues unabated and offer pilot programs ... 		Armenia Now

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05/06/2011 Spending more on forests could reap enormous benefits – UN report
Investing a relatively small amount each year in the forestry sector could halve deforestation, create ... 		UN News Centre

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01/06/2011 Experts meet in Congo in bid to rescue world forests
Representatives from 35 countries will seek ways to protect the world's largest rainforests during ... 		Reuters, featured on Planet Ark

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27/05/2011 States unite to protect primeval European forests
Bratislava, Slovakia - Europe's largest areas of old growth forests outside Russia are to be protected ... 		WWF

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20/05/2011 On biodiversity day, UN highlights social, economic and green benefits of forests
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced concern over alarming deforestation and the degradation of ... 		UN News Centre

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19/05/2011 High wood product output doesn’t correlate to higher carbon emissions according to US Forest Service research
A study by researchers at the ... 		US Department of Agriculture Blog

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13/04/2011 Upcoming UN-backed summit to focus on sustainable management of rainforests
Top officials from more than 35 nations covering the world’s three major rainforest regions will ... 		UN News Centre

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18/03/2011 Forests are key for high quality water supply
Better forest management needed to maximize water-related benefits from forests

By 2025, 1.8 billion ... 		FAO Media Centre

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02/02/2011 International Year of Forests launched: UN calls on forest sector to take innovative actions
New York/Rome - Millions of forest-dependant people play a vital role in managing, conserving, and developing ... 		FAO Media Centre

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31/01/2011 Forestry programmes promote sustainability by market incentives
HCM City — Awareness of illegal logging, sustainable forest management, and requirements of international ... 		Viet Nam News

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26/11/2010 Revised PEFC Standards Published
The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), whose standards govern the certification ... 		PEFC

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24/09/2010 Markets force Romania, Bulgaria to catch up on forest certification
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Friday, the international day of sustainable forestry, is being marked ... 		WWF

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03/09/2010 Partnership to sustain tropical forests launched
The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the Japan International Cooperation Agency ... 		ITTO

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29/06/2010 Calling for an 'old-fashioned' green revolution
Using "good old-fashioned" farming techniques will help deliver a sustainable green revolution ... 		BBC News

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06/05/2010 Brazil to plant palms on cleared Amazon land
Brazil's government is starting a program to replant deforested areas of the Amazon with palm trees ... 		Bloomberg BusinessWeek

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16/04/2010 Forest footprint makes its mark
How much or little your business contributes to deforestation is set to be an increasingly significant ... 		TTJ - The Timber Industry Magazine, UK

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02/02/2010 A cure for the Amazon's deforestation: More logging
Writing from Iquitos, Peru, forester and woodworker James King presents a solution for the deforestation ... 		Living in Peru

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18/01/2010 World's first sustainably harvested African blackwood
The world’s first sustainably harvested African blackwood generates new income for Tanzanian forest ... 		Sound and Fair Campaign

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14/01/2010 Long-term business benefits inspire forest concessionaires to go green
Six timber concessionaires in Indonesia's Kalimantan are making a push for green certification, ... 		The Jakarta Globe

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13/01/2010 SFI launches new standard - leads forest certification forward
Washington - Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Inc. has released a new ... 		WhatTheyThink

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08/12/2009 Guyana offers a model to save rain forest
In Guyana, where pristine rain forest still covers 75 percent of the land, and barely 750,000 people ... 		The New York Times

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07/12/2009 Amazon lumberjacks take lead in sustainable forestry
In the heart of the Amazon a group of lumberjacks is pioneering the sustainable exploitation of the world's ... 		Taiwan News

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27/11/2009 'I'm in love with the forest now - I want to protect it': From illegal loggers to community rangers in Indonesia's Aceh province
"I don't know how many trees I cut down. Hundreds. Thousands? I don't know... If there ... 		Department for International Development (DFID), UK

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27/11/2009 A fair deal for forest people: working to ensure that REDD forests bear fruit for local communities
As world leaders meet to thrash out the next incarnation of the Kyoto climate agreement, the world waits ... 		Mongabay.com

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26/11/2009 Africa: Fears forest proposals are 'human rights disaster'
Copenhagen — The clean, ultra-modern chrome and glass lines of the Bella Centre, in the Danish ... 		allAfrica.com

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22/11/2009 Kenya: 1,000 trees planted in nation's green drive
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19/11/2009 Joining forces to strengthen responsible forestry in Lao PDR
Vientiane, Lao PDR - WWF’s Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN) and The Forest Trust (TFT) ... 		WWF

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30/10/2009 UN Member States reach agreement on financing of sustainable forests
United Nations Member States today reached an agreement that sets out the path to financing sustainable ... 		UN News Centre

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27/08/2009 Deforestation 'prevention schemes creating criminals'
Carbon trading schemes designed to halt deforestation have created a multimillion criminal industry, ... 		Cool Earth

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25/08/2009 WWF-Indonesia, TBI commit to save Kalimantan forests
Bogor - WWF-Indonesia and The Borneo Initiative (TBI) have officially made a commitment to save the forests ... 		Antara News, Indonesia

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PRESENTATIONS

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10/02/2012 Responsible Asia forestry and trade Jack Hurd, The Nature Conservancy

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07/12/2011 Sustainable forest management and carbon stocks Nophea Sasaki, University of Hyogo, ITTO Delegate Kobe, Japan

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21/01/2010 Moving SFM from Exploitation to Restoration Within a Finite Forest Peter Wood, Global Witness

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21/01/2010 When are Trade-offs Additive? Local Understanding of SFM and its Relevance to Livelihoods John Palmer, Forest Management Trust

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21/01/2010 Is Sustainable Forestry the Best Option? Hervé Bourgignon, IFIA

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EVENTS

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Tuesday 5th March 2013 World Forests Summit: Achieving sustainable forest management on a global scale
Forests play a crucial role in the world's environment, health and economy - yet they are under ...

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Wednesday 14th November 2012 Strengthening the Link: Sustainable Biomass & Forest Certification
Globally, wood is a massive source of energy. It is the leading source of renewable energy, contributes ...

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Wednesday 24th October 2012 Governance for Forest, Nature and People: Managing multi-stakeholder learning in sector wide approaches and national forest programmes
This course is organised by the Centre for International Forestry Research and Wageningen University. ...

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Monday 24th September 2012 Committee on Forestry (COFO) 2012 - Forests: a green pathway for human development
World leaders at Rio+20 agreed that forests have a significant role to play in addressing many sustainable ...

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Wednesday 20th June 2012 ACTO Member Countries Vision of Amazon Forests. Monitoring Deforestation
This official Rio+20 side event is organised by ACTO (Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organisation).

ACTO ...

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Tuesday 19th June 2012 Forests: The 8th Roundtable at Rio+20
In June 2012, one of the most important environmental gatherings in a generation will take place in Brazil ...

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Monday 26th March 2012 Latina 2012: 2nd Latin America Forest Industry Conference
The Forest Industry in Latin America grew rapidly over the past four decades as it developed its technological ...

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Monday 5th March 2012 27th Session of the Latin American and Caribbean Forestry Commission (LACFC)
Based on national and regional priorities, the mandate of the LACFC is to advice FAO on the forestry ...

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Thursday 1st March 2012 Forest models for research and decision support in sustainable forest management
This conference is organised by the Atlantic European Regional Office of the European Forest Institute ...

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Tuesday 31st January 2012 The Importance of Biodiversity and Forest Ecosystems in Economic Growth and Equity in Latin America and the Caribbean
The Organization of American States (OAS), as a co-sponsor of the World Congress on Justice, Governance ...

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Tuesday 15th November 2011 Research Priorities in Tropical Silviculture: Towards New paradigms?
IUFRO International Conference

Over the past 50 years, deforestation of tropical forests has ...

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Tuesday 4th October 2011 Contributions of Forests to a Green Economy
Every day, around the globe, forests contribute substantially to people’s well-being. For some, ...

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Monday 18th July 2011 Proforest Summer Training Programme
In the past ten years more than 400 participants from over 50 different countries have participated in ...

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Monday 21st March 2011 How successful is Sustainable Forest Management in the UNECE Region?
The UNECE/FAO Forestry & Timber Section is organizing a Seminar on the "State of forests and ...

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LINKS

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Dovetail Partners Inc, US Dovetail Partners is a non-profit organisation which provides authoritative information about the impacts and trade-offs of environmental decisions, including consumption choices, land use, and policy alternatives. The organisation has produced a number of forestry-related publications on issues such as chain of custody and managing forests for carbon mitigation. It also runs a dedicated forest information website, which they describe as a 'one-stop shop for environmental education resources': http://www.forestinfo.org. Broken link

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Forest Connect Forest Connect is an international alliance dedicated to tackling the isolation of small forest enterprises. Established in late 2007, its aims are to avoid deforestation and reduce poverty by better linking sustainable small forest enterprises to each other, to markets, to service providers and to policy processes such as National Forest Programmes (nfps).

It currently involves partner institutions with funded facilitation plans in 12 countries: Burkina Faso, China, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guatemala, Guyana, Laos, Liberia, Malawi, Mali, Mozambique and Nepal plus a broader network of 700+ supporters in 58 countries linked by an international social networking site. 		Broken link

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Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry Since its founding in 1900, the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies has been in the forefront of developing a science-based approach to forest management, and in training leaders world-wide. The Global Institute of Sustainable Forestry established in 2000 continues this tradition. It's mission is to integrate, strengthen and direct the School's forestry research, education and outreach to address the challenges of sustaining forests in the 21st century and a globalized world.

GISF undertakes formal research and education programmes, a number of which relate to illegal logging issues. This includes hosting 'The Forests Dialogue', which works on forest certification, illegal logging and corruption. 		Broken link

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International Model Forest Network (IMFN) The International Model Forest Network (IMFN) is a global community of practice whose members and supporters work toward a common goal: the sustainable management of forest-based landscapes through the Model Forest approach. The IMFN is comprised of all member Model Forests in existence or under development around the world.

Model Forests are based on a flexible approach that combines the social, cultural and economic needs of local communities with the long-term sustainability of forest landscapes. 		Broken link

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Sound and Fair: A campaign to realise a sustainable trade in African blackwood The Sound & Fair campaign aims to realise a sustainable trade in African blackwood through a fully-certified chain of custody linking village communities in Tanzania to woodwind instrument musicians in the UK.

By safeguarding a hugely valuable natural resource, Sound and Fair will help lift some of the world’s poorest people out of poverty. 		Broken link

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