CFA
Young Foresters complete their placements in Uganda
The two winners of the
CFA Young Forester Award, Chidiebere Ofoegbu from South Africa and Chisika
Sylvester from Kenya, began their placements with the Uganda Sawlog Production
Grant Scheme in early February under the watchful eye of SPGS Senior
Plantation Officer, and CFA Youth Officer, Celia Nalwadda. Their
placements have now been completed and you can read the diaries of both YFA
winners at
YFA Diaries.
What they have to say
Chisika Sylvester
Chidiebere
Ofoegbu
How
leaving a legacy can help the CFA
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is dependent upon the support of its members. Leaving a gift in your
Will can help us continue to promote the conservation and sustainable
management of the World's forests and the contribution they make to
people's livelihoods.
The CFA is supporting
ANZIF 2011 “Pacific Forestry – Growing a Forestry Future”, to be held in
Auckland on 2-5 May. The conference which is targeting forestry policy makers,
managers and
practitioners from the
South Pacific region will address issues including illegal logging and climate
change. But as 2011 is also the UN International Year of the Forest a
strong focus on social, cultural and economic expectations of forests in this
region can be expected. More>>
International Year of Forests, 2011
2011 marks the
International Year of Forests. Click
here to find out
more.
CFA supports FAO
and the International Year of the Forest.
New publication
Commonwealth Forests 2010
Commonwealth Forests
2010online
Click
here to download
the full text or individual chapters/annexes
The CFA is pleased
to announce the publication of Commonwealth Forests 2010 – an
overview of the forests and forestry sectors of the countries of the
Commonwealth. It is a revised and expanded version of the book
which first appeared in 2008 and contains the most up-to-date and
extensive information available on the Commonwealth’s forest
resource. More>>
This promises to be an important year for the
forestry sector internationally, and particularly for forestry finance
initiatives. The UN has declared 2011 to be the International Year of Forests
and the recent UN Climate Change conference in Cancun has given the green
light to efforts to award carbon credits to projects in developing countries
that Reduce Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD).
Attend the 2nd Annual Forestry, Biomass &
Sustainability conference for a full update on – and analysis of – the
developments in policy, economics and financing of biomass and forestry
projects, and to identify new investment opportunities and risks in these
rapidly growing markets.
We are pleased to announce
that PEFC UK Ltd has joined the CFA. PEFC UK Ltd was established
in 2000 and is the member of PEFC International, an international
non-profit, non-governmental organisation dedicated to promoting
Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) through independent third-party
certification. PEFC International is an umbrella organisation that
endorses national forest certification systems developed through
multi-stakeholder processes and tailored to local priorities and
conditions. More>>
Where does the future lie
for forestry?
The International Year of Forests is a
good time to stand back and re-consider the contribution that forests
make to human development. There has been remarkable international
consensus over the past 20 years that all people and all nations
should follow the one goal of sustainable forest management. Nowhere
can this be seen more clearly than in
international development circles and
the discussions over the future of tropical forests. But is this
consensus misplaced?
Read Neil Bird's blog here.
NEW!
NGO Directory
Now you can search our comprehensive list of Commonwealth NGOs with an
interest in forestry by visiting our new
NGO Directory.
Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization
(FAO) has carried out assessments of the world’s forest resources on
eleven occasions since 1946, as part of its mandate to “collect,
analyse, interpret and disseminate information” relating to the
agricultural sector (which includes forestry). They have been at
5-yearly intervals in recent years – 1990, 1995, 2000 and 2005.
The key finding of the latest Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010
(FRA2010) were released in March this year while the report was
published to coincide with FAO’s Committee on Forestry (COFO) in
October.
More>>
Restoring forests at home can lead to
deforestation abroad
ASSOCIATION NEWS
•
ANZIF meeting
•
CFA Young Foresters relishing the challenge of
working in Uganda
• Forestry anniversary
celebrations
• A personal view of attendance at the Commonwealth
Forestry Conference in Edinburgh, 2010
•
The CFA supporting science in developing countries
FOREST SCENES
•
Good news from Cancun
•
Challenges for Norwegian financial support to
Guyana
•
Woodland creation in the UK – what has the Woodland Trust to
offer?
• Trees, farms, towns,
wilderness and people Interview with Eduardo Rojas-Briales, Chair of the
Collaborative Partnership On Forests
MEETINGS
• Trees, people and
the built environment
PUBLICATIONS
•
More people, more trees: environmental recovery in dryland Africa
• Contracting for
forest carbon: elements of a model forest carbon purchase agreement
• Large-scale
acquisition of rights on forest lands in Africa
• Saskatchewan’s New
Forest Ecosite Field Guide published
AROUND THE WORLD
• Africa:
Forest Fest makes headway in protection, poverty reduction
• Antarctica:
Secrets of Antarctica’s fossilised forests
• Australia:
Mangroves may get growth spurt from Queensland fl oods
• Brazil:
Amazon drought is consistent with what scientific models predict for a warmer
globe
• Global: Forests could
start growing again – UN expert
•
India: Centre plans ‘Green
India Mission’
• Indonesia: Palm oil deal aims to save forests and carbon – A major
palm oil producer is joining forces with environmental campaigners in a bid to
ramp up forest protection
• Ireland: Future’s good for Forestry
• Kenya: Project issues first REDD credits
• UK: The forest sell-off is not radical enough
• UK: Illegal timber sold by British businesses putting world’s forests
at risk
• USA: Intensive logging created New England’s rich wetlands
• Zambia: ZAFFICO to raise 5m seedlings
International Forestry Review
Issue 1 2011
PAPERS
Towards
cost-effective social impact assessment of REDD+ projects: meeting the
challenge of multiple benefit standards
M. RICHARDS and S.N.
PANFIL
Conceptual
approaches to integrate nature conservation into forest management: a Central
European perspective
A. BONCINA
Is China unique?
Exploring the behaviour of Chinese and European firms in the Cameroonian
logging sector
P.O. CERUTTI, S.
ASSEMBE-MVONDO, L. GERMAN and L. PUTZEL
Commercial
management of non-timber forest products in Nepal’s community forest users
groups: who benefits?
K. GAULI and M. HAUSER
Exploration of the
relevance of geographical, environmental and socio-economic indicators
regarding forest conflict types
D. GRITTEN, and B.
MOLA-YUDEGO
Reliable forest
carbon monitoring – systematic reviews as a tool for validating the knowledge
base
G. PETROKOFSKY, P.
HOLMGREN and N.D. BROWN
New forests in
changing landscapes in south-east Australia
H.T.L. STEWART, D.H.
RACE and A.L. CURTIS
Indigenous forest
management in Bolivia: potentials for livelihood improvement
P. UBERHUAGA, H.O.
LARSEN and T. TREUE
Internationalization and financial performance in the global forest industry
Y. ZHANG and A. TOPPINEN
BOOK REVIEWS
Tropical Montane Cloud Forests
L.A. BRUIZNZEEL, F.N. SCATENA and L.S. HAMILTON
Transborder governance of forests, rivers and seas
Edited by W. DE JONG, D. SNELDER and N. ISHIKAWA
The
Storm Leopard
M. MURRAY
The Collector: David Douglas and the natural history of the Northwest
J. NISBET
Managing Native Broadleaved Woodland
R. HARMER, G. KERR and R. THOMPSON
Forests and Society – Responding to global drivers of change
IUFRO
World Series Volume
Edited by G. MERY, P. KATILA, G. GALLOWAY, R.I. ALFARO, M. KANNINEN, M.
LOBOVIKOV, and J. VARJO
Forecasting Forest Futures. A Hybrid Modelling Approach to the Assessment of
Sustainability of Forest Ecosystems and their Values
H. KIMMINS, J. A. BLANCO, B. SEELY, C. WELHAM and K. SCOULLAR
Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests
Edited by J. BAUHUS, P. VAN DER MEER and M. KANNINEN
Degraded Forests in Eastern Africa – Management and Restoration
Edited by F. BONGERS and T. TENNIGKEIT
Community Rights, Conservation and Contested Land: The Politics of Natural
Resource Governance in Africa
Edited by F. NELSON
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Reduced
membership rate offered to national forestry associations
The
CFA is pleased to announce a new membership category - National
Forestry Associations. For the cost of a single membership
all members will be entitled to benefits of CFA membership and have
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