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Commonwealth Forestry Conference a great success

A highly successful 18th Commonwealth Forestry Conference was held in Edinburgh, Scotland between 28th June and 2nd July. The conference was opened by the Commonwealth Secretary General, Kamalesh Sharma, and a video message from HRH The Prince of Wales outlined the importance of the challenges that we, as foresters, face in managing forests throughout the Commonwealth. The conference proved to be an excellent chance for foresters from throughout the Commonwealth to meet and hear presentations on the conference theme Restoring the Commonwealth's Forests: Tackling Climate Change. A full report, with photos, will appear shortly along with the minutes of the CFA AGM which was held on 29th June.

New publication

Commonwealth Forests 2010

	Commonwealth Forests 2010 online
	Click here to download the full text or individual chapters/annexes

The CFA is pleased to announce the publication of Commonwealth Forests 2010 – an overview of the forests and forestry sectors of the countries of the Commonwealth. It is a revised and expanded version of the book which first appeared in 2008 and contains the most up-to-date and extensive information available on the Commonwealth’s forest resource.

In his introduction, Mark Collins, Director of the Commonwealth Foundation posed the question, in the three years since the first edition of Commonwealth Forests was produced “we learnt that the Commonwealth’s forests are disappearing about 70% faster than the rest of the world’s. In this re-evaluation the figures remain broadly the same. Are we doing enough?”. Not surprisingly this book suggests that the picture is worrying and there is much that needs to be done. More>>

2010 Queen's Award for Forestry launched

In 1987, the Association's Patron, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, approved the Queen's Award for Forestry, to recognise outstanding contributions to forestry. The purpose of the Award, which comprises a cash prize and a travel grant to the combined value of Ł2000, is both to recognise the achievements and support the future work of an outstanding mid-career forester. The CFA is pleased to announce the launch of the Queen’s Award for Forestry 2010 and invites nominations from members for individuals who combine exceptional contributions to forestry with an innovative approach to his or her work.

The Association, which has responsibility for selecting and evaluating candidates, will agree a travel programme in conjunction with the winner that will maximise the benefits to the winner, the hosts and the Association. The successful candidate will be expected to deliver a lecture upon return describing his or her experiences and lessons learned.

For more information on the Queen's Award click here.

DONATIONS

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NEW! NGO Directory

Now you can search our comprehensive list of Commonwealth NGOs with an interest in forestry by visiting our new NGO Directory.

How leaving a legacy can help the CFA

As a charity, the CFA is dependent upon the support of its members. Leaving a gift in your Will can help us continue to promote the conservation and sustainable management of the World's forests and the contribution they make to people's livelihoods.

To find out how you can help please click here.

New Publications

CFA Newsletter

June 2010

CONTENTS

• Commonwealth Forests 2010

FOREST SCENES

• Deeper Economic thoughts on forest-based carbon trade –part two

• The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement

• The Marcus Wallenberg Foundation announces the 2010 Prize winner

• TechTalk

PUBLICATIONS

• Forestry, Biomass & Sustainability 2010

• UK Institute of Chartered Foresters annual meeting proceedings

• Vietnam: Why REDD + needs local people

AROUND THE WORLD

• Indonesia agrees to curb commercial deforestation

• Balkans sound alarm over disappearing forests

• Global: Part-protected forests burn more

• Cameroon: Hope that signed Cameroon-EU VPA will begin end to illegal logging

• USA: Obama administration extends roadless moratorium

• Global: Agreement on financing and quick-start measures to protect rainforest

• UK: University told to hand over tree data

• Global: Urban trees help ‘migrating birds’

• U.S. climate bill backs forest offsets

• India: Green India Mission to double afforestation efforts by 2020

• India: Afforestation drive in UP

• Madagascar: Shaky rule threatens trees

• UK: Conker canker decoded

• USA tops deforestation league

International Forestry Review

Issue 2 2010

Special Issue: Forest taxation and tropical forest management

PAPERS

Forest taxation regime for tropical forests: lessons

from central Africa

A. KARSENTY

The challenges of redistributing forest-related

monetary benefits to local governments: a decade

of logging area fees in Cameroon

P.O. CERUTTI, G. LESCUYER, S. ASSEMBE-MVONDO and L. TACCONI

Forestry taxation in Africa: the cases of Liberia

and Gabon

R. KRELOVE and O. MELHADO

Legitimacy of public domain forest taxation, and

combatting corruption in forestry

J. PALMER and J. BULKAN

COMMENTS

A reform of fiscal policies in forested African

countries

H. BOURGUIGNON

The 2008-2009 timber sector crisis in Africa and

some lessons for the forest taxation regime

A. KARSENTY, N. BAYOL, P. CERUTTI, D. EZZINE DE BLAS and E. FORNI

Bidding system for allocating forest concessions

M. GRUT

Taxation of tropical forests: Search for

generalizations after half a century of trying

I. RUZICKA

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Tools

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Donations

Donations can be made towards supporting the work of the CFA either through Legacies or supporting our Forests for the Future campaign.

Updates

Reduced membership rate offered to national forestry associations

The CFA is pleased to announce a new membership category - National Forestry Associations. For the cost of a single membership all members will be entitled to benefits of CFA membership and have access to the International Forestry Review and CFA Newsletter. [More...]

Meetings

Climate Change Conference

The Commonwealth Foundation and the Government of Seychelles held a joint international conference Preparing for Change: Adaptive Strategies for Climate Change and Disaster Management in the Commonwealth in October 2006. [More...]

Commonwealth Forestry Conference 2005

Sri Lanka

INFOMEETS provides a full listing of national and international forestry meetings. Click here for more information.

Awards

Queen's Award for Forestry

Regional Award

Young Forester Award

Young Scientist Publication Award

CFA Young Scientist Research Award

CFA Book Prize

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