Africa's forest sector has from time immemorial been strategic to the socio-cultural and economic well-being of the people in different settlements of the continent. Similarly, it has served strategic environmental and security purposes over the millennia. Forests remain a critical link in the...

This paper discusses the Strategic Framework on Mediterranean Forests and the Tlemcen Declaration. The Strategic Framework on Mediterranean Forests aims to provide a common policy direction for the integrated management of Mediterranean forest ecosystems. On the basis of information drawn from the...

This paper enumerates the recent findings regarding forest management and carbon cycle. The first of these is the demonstration that woodland creation and forest protection provide highly cost-effective and achievable abatement of GHG emissions when compared with carbon capture options across other ...

Conservation International's biodiversity hotspots are areas of high vascular plant endemism combined with high levels of habitat destruction and land use change. Although such hotspots have also been shown to be centres for terrestrial vertebrate endemism, much less is known about how well these...

This editorial briefly discusses the different aspects regarding the management of old-growth forests, including the definition and means for restoration and conservation. Also included are four conclusions and recommendations on the report which directly addressed the then-current controversy...

The cultivation of Eucalyptus urograndis seedlings irrigated with domestic sewage effluent of a treatment plant with anaerobic reactor and polishing pond was evaluated. Seedling pots were irrigated based on the soil pot capacity (PC) in six treatments (T) with four repetitions each. The pots in T1, ...

In this editorial, corruption and its implications for forest policy instruments are discussed by highlighting the significant results of previous studies. It is emphasized that one must understand the process behind bribes, forest management decisions (legal and illegal) of forest users and policy ...

This paper describes the earliest neglect of forest policy in studies of land use and cover change, explains why significant changes in policy are underway, and argues for increased attention to forest policy issues in the agenda of global change researchers.