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 2024  

CFA Newsletter - September 2024

Papers

Forest management approaches in Türkiye: understanding the past, evolving the future  H. CALISKAN and S. OZDEN

The potential impact of legality requirements for China’s imported timber: a global forest product model-based analysis  S. KE, Z. ZHANG, and Y. WANG

Reviewing Social Forestry in Indonesia through an Integrative Framework for Collaborative Governance  M.A. LAWASI, D. RACHMAWAN, A. IBAN, E.J.M.S. ADHI, H.HIDAYAT, R. SIBURIAN and A.M. RATRI

Balancing conservation and development: a review of navigating Malaysian forest policies and initiatives  W-Y. LIU, J.-L. YAP and C.-C. LIN

A sustainability analysis of community-conserved areas in Sabah, Malaysia using Ostrom’s design principles  V.P.W. LOKE, T.K. BAUL and T.K. NATH

Organizational culture and competitive strategy in the forestry industry of Durango, Mexico  E. MONTIEL-ANTUNA, E. GARCÍA-MONTIEL, J.A. SOTO-CERVANTES, M.M. MORONESESQUIVEL, C. BORREGO-NUÑEZ, M.A. MARTELL-NEVÁREZ and J.Á. PRIETO-RUÍZ

Opportunities and challenges towards a circular bioeconomy of the Philippines’ veneer and plywood industry  V.M. PALMA-TORRES, M.B. CADALIN, K.F.P. EVINA and M.M. CALDERON

A guiding framework for implementing forest landscape restoration in the tropics  C. SABOGAL, J. BLASER and S. MANSOURIAN

 

Lead
• Producing more from less

Association News
• NEW essay competition
(cash prize)

Forest Scenes
• Fire for forests
• Preserving the Congo Basin
• US old growth forests
• Mixed forests store more carbon
• Forests have a right to exist
• Innovation in forestry
• Human destruction of tropical forests
• Forests in 2050
• Drones for protecting forests
• Tijuca National Park

Publications
• FAO roadmap
• US Forest Service on Netflix
• Sitka Spruce for kids
• SOTWF
• West Nile women – YouTube

Forest Scenes
• Can forests be more profitable than beef?
• Why businesses should stop planting trees
• Certified timber harvesting helping elephants and gorillas
• UK power station still burning rare wood
• Five positive signs for forests in 2024
• Previously logged forests struggle to survive
• Forests with rich diversity better adapted to climate change
• How Congo’s trees are smuggled through East Africa
• Deforestation in Indonesia

Publications
• Grow your knowledge
• How climate change could impact forests
• Should forests have rights?

Around the World


 

Latest News

Nigeria Chapter Conference - virtual meeting
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