Welcome to the CFA

Professor John Innes, CFA President 

“The objective of the CFA is to promote the conservation and sustainable management of the world's forests and the contributions they make to peoples’ livelihoods…..”

“A particularly important aspect of the CFA is the links that are being forged between forestry professionals and civil society”.

Read why Professor Innes supports the CFA


Recent publications

International Forestry Review - September 2025  

CFA Newsletter - September 2025

Papers

The importance of transparency in preventing deforestation and forest degradation: a comparison of discourse and facts in Türkiye E. ATMI?

Perceptions of deadwood among Iranian university students S. BAYRAKTAR, K. SEFIDI and A. PALETTO

International forestry aid architecture in the Philippines (1990–2022) P.B. DAYANDANTE, S. MIN, C.E. TINIO and M.S. PARK

Human-driven land-use change on native forests in Argentina: a literature review of ecological attributes and regional patterns A. FIGUEROA, R. SOLER and V. CAMPOS

Forest carbon markets: a review G. KHANAL and D. ZHANG

Integrating nature and people in European forest management: what is the state of nature conservation and role of participation? A.A. KONCZAL, J.H.C. DE KONING, J.B. LARSEN, A. FELTON, A. LAWRENCE, CH. AMMER, P. ANGELSTAM, I. MARTINEZ DE ARANO, T. BJÄRSTIG, M. BLONDET, M. CALVIÑO-CANCELA, R. DE VREESE, C. DOLRIIS, B. JAROSZEWICZ, J. JOHANSSON, M.J. LEXER, L. NICHIFOREL, K. NIEDZIA?KOWSKI, Y. PAILLET, L. ROZYLOWICZ, M. SOTIROV, V. STOKES, B. JELLESMARK THORSEN, K. VANDEKERKHOVE, I. WALLIN, G. WEISS, T. SCHULZ, T. WOHLGEMUTH, T. ZLATANOV and G. WINKEL

A multidisciplinary approach to understanding the evolution of agroforests in Timor-Leste R. MARTIN, M. BOISSIERE, P. DEGENNE, M. COGNE, A.A. XAVIER and B. FERNANDES

Industrial upgrading and the forest resource curse: evidence from provincial panel data in China D. QIAO, Y. YANG, L. WANG, Y. JI and X. YUAN

‘Banking’ trees as loan collateral: financing approaches for small-scale forest producers in Thailand M. STARFINGER,, M. JENKE and G. KAP

 

 

Lead
•  Forests are contributing to
climate change

 

CFA Voices
Equity in community-based conservation

Forest Scenes
• Bangor’s Forestry MSC
• A home for trees and birds
• How 3 years of war have ravaged Ukraine
• Forest biomass satellite images
• Restoration of ancient woodlands
• Carbon sink shrinks
• The Gambia “Now the forest is truly ours”

Publications
• Assessing vegetation changes
• Resilient forest management

Around the World


 

Latest News

Nigeria Chapter Conference - virtual meeting
Forest Ecosystem Potentials in Nigeria: Opportunities for Green Economy in the 21st Century V...
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