ITTO/IUCN Guidelines for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity in tropical timber production forests

Mar 2009

Since 1991 ITTO has adopted several set of guidelines for forest managers and policymakers, including on natural production forests, planted forests, the restoration, management and rehabilitation of degraded and secondary tropical forests, and fire management. All contain provisions for the maintenance of biodiversity and all have helped reinforce the importance of biodiversity conservation in tropical production forests.
This publication sets out the specific actions that policymakers, forest managers and other stakeholders should take to improve biodiversity conservation in tropical production forests. In this way, it aims to help in the conservation of arguably the planet’s most valuable resource – its diversity of life.

By: ITTO Policy Development Series No 17

 
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