Multi-purpose Medicinal Plants (MMPs) remain a crucial element of human and livestock healthcare systems in many developing countries. Industrialized countries also use medicinal plants, as many pharmaceuticals are based on, or derived from plant compounds. Over-exploitation of medicinal plants, and lack of meaningful legislation to regulate harvesting, and trade is...

This series of case studies is the attachment of the publication A decision-making guide for invasive species program managers conceived at the 2010 annual meeting of the Conference on the Continental Dialogue on Non-native Forest Insects and Diseases. The Dialogue’s Steering Committee believes this guide can be a valuable...

This case study presents a forest rehabilitation initiative in the tropical dry forests in north- western India. This project is undertaken by an Indian Non Government Organisation (NGO), the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES), in cooperation with the Forest Department and aims at improving the livelihood of tribal communities. The...

This working paper suggests that degradation is a form of (unsustainable) forest management and that measures to counter degradation, in particular Community Forest Management (CFM) lead not only to reduction in degradation but to forest enhancement as well. While reduced degradation is to be credited and rewarded under a Reduced...

The present paper is a review of the methods used for assessing defaunation, as a forest degradation component, linked to logging and logging concessions with an emphasis on mammals and Central Africa Rainforests. A discussion on the usefulness and weaknesses of these methods is provided.

Sound forest management practices have been seen as an interesting strategy to ally forest conservation and rural economic development in Amazônia. However, the implementation of Reduced Impact Logging (RIL) techniques in the field has been incipient, while most of the Amazonian timber production is generated through predatory and illegal logging....

Deforestation and forest degradation are major sources of greenhouse gas emissions (GHG). Reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD) as a likely component of a global post-Kyoto regime, i.e. after 2012, implies operational and cost efficient monitoring methodologies for providing reliable estimates of the respective forest biomass and carbon...

Reliable data are limited in the Comoros archipelago. Most information comes from unpublished reports or from common knowledge and observations of local environmentalists. The only published data are found in Mayotte. To our knowledge, there is still no official list of invasive woody plant species and the concept of ‘invasiveness’...

The report is one of four studies and summarizes the results of a rapid assessment survey on invasive woody plant species in the Western Indian Ocean region commissioned by the Forestry Section of the Seychelles, Ministry of Environment, on behalf of the Forestry Department of FAO. This case study presents...

The report is one of four studies and summarizes the results of a rapid assessment survey on invasive woody plant species in the Western Indian Ocean region commissioned by the Forestry Section of the Seychelles, Ministry of Environment, on behalf of the Forestry Department of FAO. This case study presents...