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17 June, 2013TBI Ghana supports the revision of the Adwenase Forest Management Plan
The Adwenase Forest Management Plan has received a massive facelift following its revision by the kind courtesy of the EU Chainsaw Milling project implemented by Tropenbos International Ghana and partners. The plan, first drafted in 1995 by the Resource Management Support Centre (RMSC) of the Forestry Commission and the Assin-Akropong community, was revised to keep step with current forest management practices.
17 June, 2013Chainsaw operators gear up for tree plantation establishment
Converted chainsaw operators are warming up to establish forest plantations as an alternative livelihood to illegal chainsaw milling. This is because in April 2013, the EU Chainsaw Milling project implemented by Tropenbos International Ghana and partners provided the requisite starter kits to four chainsaw-dependent communities. The kits comprise seeds of commercial tree species for nursery establishment, protective clothing and requisite implements and materials for plantation development.
17 June, 2013Mills offer hope for legal lumber supply
The communities of Sankore and Brewaniase in Ghana, have received artisanal mills donated by the Timber Industry Development Division (TIDD) of the Forestry Commission under the EU Chainsaw project implemented by Tropenbos International Ghana and partners. The mills will be used by the communities to process raw materials acquired from legal sources through a partnership arrangement between chainsaw-dependent communities and forest concession holders.
Sustainable Management of Tropical Rainforests: The CELOS Management System
Suriname - 2011
ISBN: 978-90-5113-101-7
ISSN: 1383-6811
Language: English
This book, with contributions from 25 authors, tells in brief the history of forestry in Suriname and some other tropical countries. It reveals how the work on forestry in Suriname led to the development of a potentially sustainable forest management system, integrating a harvesting and a silvicultural system. And it documents the long-term effects of applying this system as apparent from a great deal of research in experimental forest stands of CELOS in Suriname. This information holds the evidence to determine the potential of the CELOS Management System to serve as a model for other systems of sustainable management of tropical forests in Suriname and beyond, particularly in other Latin American countries in the region with similar forests.
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Documents
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- 2. History of use and management of forests in Suriname
- 3. The CELOS Management System: concept, treatments and costs
- 4. Tree growth, recruitment and mortality after logging and refinement
- 5. Impacts on forest structure and plant species diversity
- 6. Impacts on biomass, nutrients and water
- 7. Impacts on the terrestrial fauna
- 8. The CELOS Management System in relation to Sustainable Forest Management and Certification
- 9. Guyana
- 10. Precious Woods, Brazil
- 11. Bolivia
- 12. Costa Rica
- 13. Cameroon
- 14. Ghana
- 15. Prospects for the CELOS Management System
- Annex 1. Selection of timber species for current and future & Annex 2. Publications and reports resulting from the CELOS