Asia-Pacific forestry information

2014

04.11

FAO and ITTO Discuss PES in Tropical Forests

11 April 2014, IISD news - The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) and the National Forestry Financing Fund (FONAFIFO) of Costa Rica convened a workshop on payments for environmental services (PES) aimed at building understanding of the importance of PES in...

2014

03.31

REDD+ Partners in Congo Basin to Enhance Coordination

31 March 2014, IISD news - The Congo Basin Forest Partnership (CBFP) has reported on the outcomes of the REDD+ partners platform meeting, which considered progress and next steps for REDD+ in the Congo Basin with a particular focus on Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Gabon. In reviewing progress, meeting...

2014

04.04

CITES and Madagascar Call for Support to Stop Illegal Timber Trade

4 April 2014, IISD news - Following a meeting in Brussels, Belgium, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) and Madagascar are calling for the halt of illegal trade in timber from Madagascar, namely rosewood, palisander and ebony. Hery Marcial Rajaonarimampianina, President of...

2014

04.17

Legal logging concessions drive illegal logging in Peru, threatening

17 April 2014, Mongabay news - Nearly 70 percent of officially inspected logging concessions in Peru have had their permits canceled or are under investigation for major breaches of forestry laws, finds a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports. Worryingly, the research also concludes that forestry permits are...

2014

04.02

New Species Listed under CITES Appendix III

2 April 2014, IISD news - The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) has announced that Nicaragua, Pakistan and the Russian Federation have requested the Secretariat to list sixteen new species in CITES Appendix III. The new listings will enter into force on 24...

2014

04.02

ASEAN Ministers Call for Sharing of Land Use Maps to Combat Forest

2 April 2014, IISD news - Environment Ministers from Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand have called for the sharing of land use maps and information on hotspots contributing to forest fires and smoke haze, to enable monitoring and management of transboundary haze pollution in the sub-region. The 16th...

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