Mountain Pine beetle contributes significantly to global carbon emissions

Recent research by Werner Kurz and colleagues in Canada, published in Nature, has revealed that the massive scale of devastation caused by the mountain pine beetle has turned some forests from carbon sinks to significant carbon sources. Click here for more information and here for an interview with the author of the report (Courtesy of the BBC).

Logo unveiled for the 2010 Commonwealth Forestry Conference

The logo for the 18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from the 28^th of June to the 2^nd of July 2010, has just been unveiled.

The Organising Committee are currently working on the Conference website and hope to have it up and running shortly. [More....]

Click here to access Commonwealth Forests online

NEW ONLINE - Commonwealth Forests

Commonwealth Forests, CFA's new publication comprising a review of the state of forestry in the 53 countries of the Commonwealth, is now available online.

You are encouraged to contribute up-to-date addresses of the organisations listed by contacting cfa@cfa-international.org.

Young Forester Award

2007 diary - Sri Lanka

Coconuts, mangroves and bumpy roads

Irfan Ullah reports from Sri Lanka where he has been working with Rainforest Rescue International on a range of projects including analogue forestry, mangrove conservation and nursery management. Click here to read his report.

For more information visit the Young Forester Award page.

International Regime, Avoided Deforestation and the Evolution of Public and Private Forest Policies in the South

Click here for a report on the workshop �International Regime, Avoided Deforestation and the Evolution of Public and Private Forest Policies in the South� held in Paris last November. A selection of key papers presented at the meeting will be available later in the year as a special issue of International Forestry Review.

News

The Queen's Award for Forestry 2007

The Queen's Award for Forestry is one of the most prestigious awards in the forestry world. The Award, which is given by the CFA every two years, comprises a cash prize and a travel grant to the combined value of �2000, is both to recognise the achievements and support the future work of an outstanding mid-career forester. The recipient will be the individual who the Selection Committee considers combines exceptional contributions to forestry with an innovative approach to his or her work.

The Award

In 1987, the Association's Patron, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, approved the Queen's Award for Forestry, to recognise outstanding contributions to forestry.

The purpose of the Award, which comprises a cash prize and a travel grant to the combined value of �2000, is [More....]

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New Publications

CFA Newsletter

March 08

CONTENTS

- Forestry recruitment of Canada�s Aboriginal people

ASSOCIATION NEWS

- New CFA Youth Officer

- CFA Young Forester returns from Guyana

- CFA AGM 2007

- CFA complimentary memberships awarded

- Obituary: Lindsay Poole

- The role of civil society in the forestry sector in India

FOREST SCENES

- Mocambique: Present Dilemma, Future Choice?

- Concessions to poverty

- MegaFlorestais

- Mountain Pine Beetle in British Colombia

- SIDR batters Sunderbans

- Foresters 1, Tax Collectors 0

BOOK REVIEW

- Wildwood

AROUND THE WORLD

- REDD brainstorm shows how much further discussions have to go

- Uganda: Kampala timber dealers already facing shortages

- Big mammals key to tree-ant team

- USA: State forest owners looking for more than pines to plant

- Malaysia: RM25m boost for forest rehabilitation

- Brazil: Ministers attacked on destruction of forest

- USA: Bush opens 3m acres of Alaskan forest to logging

- India has lost forest cover to tsunami and dams

- Madagascar: Giant palm tree puzzles botanists

- Overfishing may hurt Amazon forest trees

- EU Renewables Directive includes �irresponsible� targets for agrofuel

- Global warming is not to blame for delayed autumn colouring after all

- China�s snow storms destroy forests

- Sierra Leone: Minister warns against illegal mining, logging

- Cameroon: Britain pledges FCFA 8 Billion for Congo Basin forest management

- Uganda: Kiboga Forest residents face eviction

- India: Satellite can supervise Polo forest

- Scotland: Timber industry on a high

International Forestry Review

DECEMBER 07

PAPERS

Assessing the impact of environmental campaigns against the activities of a pulp and paper company in Indonesia

D. GRITTEN and P. KANT

Protected reserves within tropical forests managed for timber production: recommendations using Bolivia as a case study

T. S. FREDERICKSEN and M. PE�A-CLAROS

Quantification of monetary losses due to illegal pitsawing in Budongo Forest, Uganda

W. GOMBYA-SSEMBAJWE, BUYINZA MUKADASI, and V. KAKURU ORISINGURA

Indigenous land tenure insecurity fosters illegal logging in Nicaragua

M. FINLEY-BROOK

Review of community-based forest management in the Philippines: emerging lessons for sustainable and equitable forest management

J. M. PULHIN, M. INOUE and T. ENTERS

COMMENT

Educating Australian Foresters for the 21^st Century

J.K. VANCLAY

Enhancing sustainable forest management in Cameroon through a model forest based approach

C. JUM, C. DIAW, J. NGUIEBOURI and M. ZOA

A review of the Sustainable Forest Management framework in Victoria, Australia: an innovative example of sub-national forest policy

G.M. HICKEYand S. CITROEN

BOOK REVIEWS

Making SFM Work - ITTO's First Twenty Years

ITTO

Forests law and sustainable development: addressing contemporary challenges through legal reform

L.C. CHRISTY, C.E. DI LEVA, J.M. LINDSAY and P. T. TOKOUKAM

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Updates

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 access to the International Forestry Review and CFA Newsletter. [More...]

Meetings

Climate Change Conference

The Commonwealth Foundation and the Government of Seychelles held a joint international conference Preparing for Change: Adaptive Strategies for Climate Change and Disaster Management in the Commonwealth in October 2006. [More...]

Commonwealth Forestry Conference 2005

Sri Lanka

INFOMEETS provides a full listing of national and international forestry meetings. Click here for more information.

Awards

Queen's Award for Forestry

Regional Award

Young Forester Award

Young Scientist Publication Award

CFA Book Prize

Tools

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How green is the CFA?

The CFA is supported by the Commonwealth Foundation

Logo unveiled for the 2010 Commonwealth Forestry Conference

The logo for the 18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from the 28th of June to the 2nd of July 2010, has just been unveiled.

The logo for the 18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland, from the 28^th of June to the 2^nd of July 2010, has just been unveiled.