Asia-Pacific forestry information

2013

01.11

Guide Published on Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry

11 January 2013, IISD news -The Growing Forest Partnerships initiative has published the “Guide for Investing in Locally Controlled Forestry” in partnership with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), the World Bank, the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the International Institute...

2013

01.18

Amazon deforestation rate pacing ahead of last year

18 January 2013, Mongabay news - Data released by Imazon, a Brazil-based NGO, shows that deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon continues to pace well ahead of last years record low rate. In a bulletin posted today, Imazon reported that its near-real-time deforestation tracking system detected 82 square kilometers of forest...

2012

12.31

Forest Experts Collaborate to Develop New Forest Governance Guide

December 2012, UNREDD news -The UN-REDD Programme recently convened a group of experts from around the world to start developing a new resource to help collect and measure data related to forest governance. This small group of 15 experts, including national representatives from Ecuador, Uganda and Vietnam, met at the European...

2012

11.09

Dept shelves plan to issue forest land rights to poor

9 November 2012,Bangkokpost news - Royal Forest Department project to allocate land rights documents to forest dwellers has been shelved, after environmentalists objected. Natural Resources and Environment Minister Preecha Rengsomboonsuk said yesterday he has instructed the department to shelve its plan until further study is...

2012

11.05

Myanmar government plans log export ban, targets value-added growth

5 November 2012, Mmtimes news -The Ministry of Forestry will scale back logging and ban the export of raw teak and hardwood from 2014 in a bid to increase exports of higher-earning finished products, the Ministry of Forestry announced late last month. “In the past, we couldn’t export finished products for various reasons...

2013

01.22

Genetic conservation of forest trees improved through pan-European

22 January 2013, Foresteurope news - EUFORGEN experts just published an article Translating conservation genetics into management: Pan-European minimum requirements for dynamic conservation units of forest tree genetic diversity that provides European countries with common guidelines on how to apply conservation genetics in...

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