Silviculture is the practice of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health and quality of forests at the stand level to meet diverse needs and values. Silvicultural practices can have a strong and beneficial impact on reclaiming areas affected by in situ extraction of oil and gas...

Managed sustainably, the Congo Basin forests have the potential to provide "sustainable nature-based solutions" to many issues related to water, energy, food and nutrition security, the fight against poverty, etc., and thus contribute to the achievement of several Sustainable Development Goals...

This report presents the state of the Central African timber Industry, the major forest management issues for the coming years, and the future of the timber industry. Production forests are, for the most part, managed with a management plan which has proven to be a good tool for planning harvests....

The forests of Central Africa, relatively well preserved in their current state, represent a lifeline for all of humanity faced with the climate crisis and the extinction of the elements of biodiversity. The survival of the human species is inherent in the sustainable management of these rather...

The issue of the rights of local and indigenous populations is more than ever at the heart of the international agenda for the management of forest resources (Sikor and Stahl 2011). Indeed, these population groups claim a set of rights inherent to land and forest tenure, to local cultures and to...

The aim of this report is to examine the potential contribution of agroforestry to net zero objectives in the United Kingdom over the next 40-50 years, with a focus on 2050. The report comprises six main sections. The first section provides the over-arching context for this study. The second...

Results are presented from the modelling of alternative forest management and timber use scenarios in Germany under the WEHAM-Scenarios project. Two alternative forest management scenarios were developed in the project: the wood preference and the nature-conservation preference scenarios. The...

This toolkit does not provide a step-by-step guide for accessing global climate change finance, because the situation is very different in each country and a universally applicable checklist of steps to take is not possible to provide. However, the toolkit does provide a set of steps for apex FFPOs ...

This paper determines the ecological and cultural role of forest plantation and how it turns into an old growth forest reserve. A case study of a very old second-growth forest in southeastern China is presented -the Wanmulin forest- in which a forest plantation planted approximately six centuries...

The focus of this review is on the dynamics of woodland soil carbon and its exchange with the atmosphere as CO2. Activities that can influence soil carbon balance include clear-felling, site preparation, natural regeneration, direct seeding, choice of tree species, tree species diversity,...