This paper introduces Woodfuel Integrated Supply/Demand Overview Mapping (WISDOM), a spatially-explicit method for highlighting and determining woodfuel priority areas or “woodfuel hot spots”. WISDOM is oriented to support strategic planning and policy formulation, through the integration and analysis of existing demand and supply related information and indicators. Rather than absolute...

Woodmark is the Soil Association’s certification scheme for Forest Management and Chain of Custody for forest products. Woodmark was one of the first Forest Stewardship Council® accredited certification bodies and has a long track record of carrying out certification assessments of forest enterprises and the timber processing industry as well...

WorkSafeBC is dedicated to promoting workplace health and safety for the workers and employers of this province. It works as consulting body to educate employers and workers and to enforce the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation. This web platform, under the Forestry section, has a number of resources specifically dedicated to...

This document reviews the different and important roles of trees in watershed management, from reducing runoff and trapping air pollution to filtering polluted water.

A seminar series to explore how using woodlands and natural spaces is good for mental, emotional, social and physical health. In 2002 Forest Research organised a seminar series for forestry, environmental and health professionals to explore the latest knowledge on the role of trees, woodlands and natural spaces in health and...

Honko was recently chosen to present the work of their partner community resource management group VOI Mamelo Honko in a video that was presented at the XIV World Forestry Congress​ in Durban, under the category "Improving governance by building capacity". We showed the work that the VOI had achieved since...

The zero-deforestation movement has gained considerable momentum as governments and companies enter into commitments to curb deforestation. The most innovative are multi-stakeholder initiatives, where governments and international organi- zations have joined with the private sector and civil society organizations in making commit- ments to reduce deforestation. These pledges have created...

This platform made by the Southern Regional Extension Forestry, contains a number of e-learning sessions, also on Urban Forestry.

The right to free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) is seen as one of the key principles of international human rights law to protect indigenous peoples from destruction of their lives, cultures and livelihoods. Increasingly it is also seen as a right for local communities to protect themselves from significant...

i-Tree is a state-of-the-art, peer-reviewed software suite from the USDA Forest Service that provides urban forestry analysis and benefits assessment tools. The i-Tree Tools help communities of all sizes to strengthen their urban forest management and advocacy efforts by quantifying the structure of community trees and the environmental services that...