Links

Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 [>>]

Potential and Challenges of Payments for Ecosystem Services from Tropical Forests [pdf]

Payments for ecosystem services (PES) from tropical forests have high potential for sustainable forest management (SFM) and conservation, through giving greater value to forests than less sustainable land uses. However, PES will only succeed with fair property rights, good governance and supportive policies from outside the forestry sector (Michael Richards and Michael Jenkins, ODI,2007) .

http://www.odi.org.uk/fecc/RESOURCES/briefing-papers/fb16-0712-ecosystem-services.pdf

(Added: Tue Apr 29 2008   Hits: 21)

Power from the Trees: How Good Forest Governance Can Help Reduce Poverty (PDF)

Forestry is no magic bullet for poverty eradication any more than any other sector is on its own. But good forestry does offer some high potential routes out of rural poverty. Forestry can contribute to food security, provide resource safety nets and sometimes enterprise opportunities where little else exists. Forests have also proven to be fertile ground for pioneering good local governance. What is needed is for national and international governance frameworks to take a lead from local initiative and convert laudable intentions into some practical action. It is time to remove the barriers that prevent forests and trees from contributing to the livelihoods of poor people and to support emerging opportunities for sustainable local forestry enterprises. (PDF -26KB)

http://www.ring-alliance.org/ring_pdf/bp_howgood.pdf

(Added: Thu Jun 27 2002   Modified: Wed Oct 04 2006   Hits: 95)

Public Consultation: Bank Forest Sector Strategy and Operational Policy

Forest Sector Strategy open for comment Draft version of the Bank's proposed Forest Sector Strategy and policy are available for comment until August 2. The new draft strategy replaces the one posted in August 2001. A draft policy document is accompanied by Bank procedures and definitions dictionary.

http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/ESSD/ardext.nsf/14ByDocName/ForestsandForestry

(Added: Fri Jun 28 2002   Modified: Fri Jun 10 2005   Hits: 136)

Rainforest Habitat

In here you can find information about Papua New Guinea's largest zoological institution, including its work in the areas of environmental education, research and training. A list of species currently held at the Rainforest Habitat (RFH) is included, and also details of training and accommodation services, which are available at the centre. The RFH is also home to one of the largest live collections of Birds of Paradise in the world, and information on these magnificent birds is available here.

http://www.habitat.org.pg/

(Added: Tue Apr 22 2003   Modified: Fri Jun 10 2005   Hits: 100)

Rainforest Relief

Rainforest Relief works to protect the world's remaining tropical and temperate rainforests by reducing the demand for the products and materials of rainforest destruction such as timber and paper, monocultured agricultural products such as bananas, beef, coffee, chocolate, and cut flowers and mining products such as oil, gold, aluminum and other metals.

http://www.rainforestrelief.org/

(Added: Wed Sep 05 2001   Modified: Fri Jun 10 2005   Hits: 234)

Regional Community Forestry Training Center for Asia and the Pacific (RECOFTC)

RECOFTC's mandate is to promote peoples' participation in forest management. RECOFTC is an international organization that closely collaborates with partners to actively support community forestry. As a learning organization, RECOFTC designs and facilitates learning processes and systems that support the development of capacities of actors in community forestry. RECOFTC seeks to constructively promote dialogue between multi-stakeholders to ensure improved governance and equitable management of forest resources.

http://www.recoftc.org/

(Added: Wed Sep 03 2003   Modified: Fri Jun 10 2005   Hits: 176)

Send an email and urge Peru to take immediate measures to conserve and sustainably manage mahogany

The Peruvian rain forest is one of the world's most biologically rich and diverse regions and provides habitat for highly threatened wildlife such as the jaguar, harpy eagle, and giant river otter. Unfortunately, these creatures and their habitats are at risk from the unsustainable harvesting of timber, particularly of big-leaf mahogany, a threatened species so valuable that it can lead to the destruction of large forest areas. Peru is the world's largest exporter of big-leaf mahogany, with over 90% going to the North American market.

http://passport.panda.org/campaigns/action_email.cfm?uCampaignId=1521&uActionId=2261

(Added: Fri Feb 16 2007   Hits: 238)

Sighting of Amazon group bolsters environmentalist case

Article from The Guardian Newspaper about a sighting of what is thought to be members of the Mascho Piro tribe. The Mascho Prio tribe have not been seen since the 1980s and were located on land currently at the centre of a battle pitting indigenous rights groups and environmentalists against the Peruvian state, loggers and oil companies (Rory Carroll, The Guardian, 3 October 2007).

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2182264,00.html

(Added: Fri Oct 05 2007   Hits: 19)

State of the World's Forests 2005

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Rome, 2005. The theme of the 2005 edition - "realizing the economic benefits from forests" - recognizes that the economic viability of the forest sector is a prerequisite to safeguarding the environmental, social and cultural functions of the resource.

http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/docrep/007/y5574e/y5574e00.htm

(Added: Fri Mar 18 2005   Modified: Fri Jun 10 2005   Hits: 85)

State of the World's Forests 2007

World's Forests considers progress towards sustainable forest management at the regional and global levels. The overall conclusion is that progress is being made, but is very uneven (Food and Agriculture Organization, 2007).

http://www.fao.org/docrep/009/a0773e/a0773e00.htm

(Added: Mon Oct 15 2007   Hits: 67)

State of the Worlds Forests 2003 (PDF)

FAO Forestry Department. The State of the World's Forests reports every two years on the status of forests, recent major policy and institutional developments and key issues concerning the forest sector. This is the fifth edition of the publication, the purpose of which is to provide current and reliable information to policy-makers, foresters and other natural resource managers, academics, forest industry and civil society.

http://www.fao.org/DOCREP/005/Y7581E/Y7581E00.HTM

(Added: Fri Mar 21 2003   Modified: Fri Jun 10 2005   Hits: 145)

Status of Tropical Forest Management 2005

This is the most extensive survey ever of the world's remaining tropical forests. It reveals an upward trend in "sustainable" management yet find that 95 percent of tropical forests remain at risk. The survey of 33 counties indicates that progress is fragile as individual nations lack economic incentives, resources to enforce efforts to prevent deforestation and manage resources . (International Tropicial Timber Organisation, 25 May 2006)

http://www.itto.or.jp/live/PageDisplayHandler?pageId=11&id=1220

(Added: Wed May 31 2006   Hits: 85)

STOP DEFORESTATION!

Come to Happy this Friday to help bring awareness to the issue of deforestation! This event will include a guest speaker from the Green Party, live music, and a short film (19 October 2007).

http://www.dev-zone.org/downloads/Green%20Gig.pdf

(Added: Tue Oct 16 2007   Hits: 32)

The Armenia Tree Project

The Armenia Tree Project, a division of the Armenian Assembly of America, was founded in 1993 to further Armenia's economic and social development by mobilizing resources outside the country to fund reforestation. Since then we have planted over 263,000 trees, opened two tree nurseries, initiated a village-based fruit drying and distribution business, and have employed hundreds to renew Armenia's severely damaged forests. Our goal is to assist the Armenian people in using trees to improve their standard of living and protect the global environment. We are guided by the need to promote self-sufficiency, aid those with fewest resources first, and conserve the indigenous ecosystem.

http://www.armeniatree.org/

(Added: Tue Jul 30 2002   Modified: Fri Jun 10 2005   Hits: 189)

The Cattle realm : a new phase in the livestock colinzation of Amazonia [pdf]

Thanks to subsidies from domestic and international institutions such as the World Bank, as well as displacement of cattle by other agricultural activities in the South of Brazil, ranching expanded at an unprecedented rate in the Amazon region. (by Amigos da Terra - Amazonia Brasileira, 2008)

http://bionegocis.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/informe_2008_deforest_amazonbr.pdf

(Added: Wed Jun 11 2008   Hits: 17)

The Forest Peoples Programme

The Forest Peoples Programme supports forest peoples' rights to determine their own futures, to control the use of their lands and to carry out sustainable use of their resources.

http://www.forestpeoples.gn.apc.org/

(Added: Wed Feb 23 2005   Modified: Fri Jun 10 2005   Hits: 117)

The International Tropical Timber Organization

The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) was created by treaty in 1983 and its headquarters was established in Yokohama, Japan, in late 1986. The primary idea is to provide an effective framework for consultation among producer and consumer member countries on all aspects of the world timber economy within its mandate. Among its multiple objectives is a commitment to assist members to meet ITTO's unique Year 2000 Objective, which states that by the year 2000 all tropical timber products traded internationally by Member States shall originate from sustainably managed forests.

http://www.itto.or.jp/live/index.jsp

(Added: Wed May 22 2002   Modified: Mon Sep 04 2006   Hits: 111)

The Key Steps in Establishing Participatory Forest Management - A field manual to guide practitioners in Ethiopia

This manual describes the key elements of Participatory Forest Management. The methods to promote the wide involvement of all sectors of the community were developed and adapted for the Ethiopian context during a ten-year period of learning.

http://www.comminit.com/en/node/189526

(Added: Thu Nov 15 2007   Hits: 20)

The Rainforest Alliance

The Rainforest Alliance is a leading international conservation organization. Our mission is to protect ecosystems and the people and wildlife that live within them by implementing better business practices for biodiversity conservation and sustainability. Companies, cooperatives, and landowners that participate in our programs meet rigorous standards for protecting the environment, wildlife, workers, and local communities.

http://www.rainforest-alliance.org/

(Added: Mon May 05 2003   Modified: Fri Jun 10 2005   Hits: 123)

The Rainforest Site

Originally launched in May 2000, The Rainforest Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific ecological need -- the preservation of the worlds rainforests. Individuals from around the world visit the site each day to click the "Save Our Rainforests" button and help rescue imperiled land. In just its first year of operation, The Rainforest Site generated funds to purchase and preserve over 5,650 acres of endangered land. Land preservation, made possible by funds raised at The Rainforest Site, is paid for by site sponsors and carried out by The Nature Conservancy, The Rainforest Conservation Fund, The World Parks Endowment and The Friends of Calakmul. These organizations work to preserve rainforest land in Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Paraguay and other locations worldwide.

http://www.therainforestsite.com

(Added: Tue Sep 24 2002   Modified: Tue Feb 20 2007   Hits: 135)

The Right Conditions

The World Bank, Structural Adjustment, and Forest Policy Reform By Frances Seymour and Navroz Dubash. The report focuses on experience in a few exceptional cases where the World Bank has explicitly included forest policy reform conditions in adjustment lending operations: Papua New Guinea, Cameroon, and Indonesia and Kenya.

http://pubs.wri.org/pubs_description.cfm?PubID=3011

(Added: Thu Jun 22 2000   Modified: Fri Jun 10 2005   Hits: 231)

The State of the World's Forests 2001

The State of the World's Forests 2001 contains an overview of recent developments in the forest sector; summary data and information on the status and change in forest resources worldwide from the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000, and chapters on selected key issues: climate change and forests, conservation of forest-based biological diversity, and illegal activities and corruption in the forest sector. There are also separate sections devoted to the international dialogue and initiatives related to forests, and to forestry in regional economic groups. This publication provides a diverse and extensive profile of the current state of global forest resources and the progress in and challenges to their sustainable management. It is thus an invaluable resource which hopefully will facilitate informed discussion and decision-making with regard to the world's forests.

http://www.fao.org/docrep/003/y0900e/y0900e00.htm

(Added: Wed Nov 14 2001   Modified: Thu Sep 21 2006   Hits: 191)

The Untouchables - Rimbunan Hijau's world of forest crime & political patronage (pdf)

Greenpeace, 03, February 2004. Rimbunan Hijau (RH) dominates the logging industry in Papua New Guinea and has interests in Gabon, Equatorial Guinea, Malaysia, Vanuatu, Indonesia, New Zealand and Russia, making it one of the world's largest forest destroyers. Many of these operations are characterised by documented illegalities and environmental destruction. The company seems impervious to criticism and appears to be protected by an extensive and well-established network of political patronage and media control.

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/press/reports/the-untouchables-rimbunan-hi

(Added: Thu Apr 15 2004   Modified: Thu Mar 27 2008   Hits: 159)

The Woods Hole Research Center

The Woods Hole Research Center addresses the great issues of environment through scientific research and education and through applications of science in public affairs. Climate change and the warming of the earth are at the core of our research, and we specialize in global forests because of their controlling influence on climate. The Center maintains continuing research projects in the tropical forests of Brazil and Central Africa, in the boreal forest of Siberia - the largest forested region on earth - and in the forests of our own New England. Our Policy Program works in the international arena to foster agreement on ways to safeguard the health of the planet. The treaty on climate change, now ratified by over 160 nations, was drafted by Center staff. We are also involved in the implementation of the treaty on biodiversity. The World Commission on Forests, established in 1995 through our initiative, is defining ways of defending global forests as a public trust. Our Education Program involves training the coming leaders of environmental science in Brazil and Russia and post-doctoral research by American scholars.

http://www.whrc.org/

(Added: Wed Feb 04 2004   Modified: Fri Jun 10 2005   Hits: 169)

The World Rainforest Movement

The World Rainforest Movement is an international network of citizens' groups of North and South involved in efforts to defend the world's rainforests. It works to secure the lands and livelihoods of forest peoples and supports their efforts to defend the forests from commercial logging, dams, mining, plantations, shrimp farms, colonisation and other projects that threaten them. The World Rainforest Movement was established in 1986 and initially focused its activities on the flaws in the FAO and World Bank's "Tropical Forestry Action Plan" and countering the excesses of the tropical timber trade and the problems of the International Tropical Timber Organisation.

http://www.wrm.org.uy/

(Added: Wed Mar 02 2005   Modified: Fri Jun 10 2005   Hits: 169)

Pages: [<<] 1 2 3 4 [>>]