• Country correspondents recognize the importance of FRA 2005 reporting process, specially the importance of been able to track back the information sent, for futures FRA reports and other international reporting commitments in the Caribbean countries.
• The country correspondent fro San Vincent pointed out that FRA 2005 is a crosswalk up to FRA 2010, reports should be developed in a professional way, and the process strength the national existing reporting capacities, so as the reporting mechanism of the Forestry Department.
• Forestry information should be linked to other sectors, including social information.
• Harmonization of data is requested so it can be used by other national agencies for planning and management decision in the forestry sector and other related sectors.
• The CARICON integration process in the region, is requesting natural resources information for appropriate management.
• FRA 2005 is giving the opportunity to have a state of the art of existing and missing information.
• In some countries, institutional breakdown have meant no activity and loss of data in a number of countries. FRA process can be a mechanism to sort and gather national information in a systematic way.
• Still a problem to be solved is the official nomination of country correspondents, and the guarantee that the same person will attend FRA meetings and trainings.
• There was an expression of interest for linking the efforts of between the Caribbean region and the South Pacific region, as their needs may be similar one may benefit from the other experience.
• There are still some questions to be answered, how to assess biodiversity? how to produce a vegetation map when there are more thousands of tree species, most of them non identified?
• Information gap still remains as problem in the Caribbean Region. Vegetation maps, and national forest assessment were identified as a possible alternative to reduce this gap. Forestry inventories for management purposes is the ideal scenario but restricted to fund availability.
