16. The native communities live in clearly identifiable ecological zones tropical dry forest, subtropical rain forest and tropical rain forest scattered over large catchment areas.

Tropical Forest Change Monitoring with FFPRI STA, Japan

HEADQUARTERS AND STRUCTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER FOREST ORGANIZATION

HEADQUARTERS AND STRUCTURE OF THE INTERNATIONAL TROPICAL TIMBER FOREST ORGANIZATION

The baseline assessment of tropical forest cover using AVHRR had been completed.

Examples of policy activities include, inter alia, forest law enforcement, certification, market access, development of guidelines, ex post evaluation, studies on market conditions, status of tropical forest management, community forest management, tenure rights, further processing of tropical timber , trade of non timber forest products and ecosystem services.

Gracia is a cute female toucan, exuding the breath of tropical rain forest.

Application of OPS and SAR Satellite Data to Tropical Forest Monitoring with USA

Tropical Forest Programme of Action (Ministry of the Environment, Natural Resources and Fisheries)

Organization means the International Tropical Timber Forest Organization established in accordance with article 3

Council means the International Tropical Timber Forest Council established in accordance with article 6

Organization means the International Tropical Timber Forest Organization established in accordance with article 3

Council means the International Tropical Timber Forest Council established in accordance with article 6

The European Union projects Tropical Ecosystem Environment Observations by Satellite (TREES) and FIRE provide data on deforestation and the presence of forest fires in tropical regions.

2. Further processing means the transformation of logs into primary wood products, semi finished and finished products made wholly or almost wholly of tropical timber and transformation of other forest products to give them added value

The Tropical Forest Action Plan Coordination Unit and the Field Programme of FAO would be the main users.

The Tropical Forest Action Plan Coordination Unit and the field programme of FAO would be the main users.

(b) Three hundred votes shall be distributed among the producer members in accordance with their respective shares of the total tropical forest resources tropical forests of all producer members and

The project will produce geometrically corrected remote sensing data, optimized for forest applications, for national and subnational forest departments and the national tropical forest action programme units to establish and or strengthen the capacity of developing countries to assess and monitor their forest resources.

USGS has also been cooperating with NASA plus the Universities of New Hampshire and Maryland to produce similar three date time series Landsat data sets for the Humid Tropical Forest Inventory Project, which is studying the tropical forest regions of the Amazon Basin, Central Africa, and Southeast Asia.

The project will produce geometrically corrected remote sensing data, optimized for forest applications, for national and subnational forest departments and the National Tropical Forests Action Programme units to establish and or strengthen the capacity of developing countries to assess and monitor their forest resources.

Encouraging members to recognize the role of forest dependent indigenous peoples and local communities in achieving sustainable forest management and develop strategies to enhance the capacity of these communities to sustainably manage tropical timber producing forests and

(p) Encouraging members to recognize the role of forest dependent indigenous peoples and local communities in achieving sustainable forest management and develop strategies to enhance the capacity of these communities to sustainably manage tropical timber producing forests and

ITTO Guidelines for the restoration, management and rehabilitation of degraded and secondary tropical forests, which provide a knowledge base on all relevant issues that need to be taken into account in planning and implementing strategies for the restoration and rehabilitation of degraded primary and secondary forests and degraded forest land.

(b) Three hundred votes shall be distributed among the producer members in accordance with their respective shares of the total tropical forest resources of all producer members and

The objectives of the International Tropical Timber Agreement, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as this Agreement ) are to promote the expansion and diversification of international trade in tropical timber from sustainably managed and legally harvested forests and to that end promote the sustainable management of tropical timber producing forests taking into account the contribution of non timber forest products and ecological services

tropical storm

In terms of improving forest management, it was noted that one of the primary measures to be implemented was the development of techniques that would provide rapid and accurate information about forest conditions.

(e) Information supplied by members on their progress towards the establishment of control and information mechanisms regarding illegal harvesting and illegal trade in tropical timber and non timber forest products.

mbis) Strengthening the capacity of members to address illegal logging and related trade in tropical timber, including through improve forest law enforcement and governance and exchanging statistical data on trade

(e) Information supplied by members on their progress towards the establishment of control and information mechanisms regarding illegal harvesting and illegal trade in tropical timber and non timber forest products.

D. Tropical beverages

Promoting better understanding of the contribution of non timber forest products and ecological services to the sustainable management of tropical forests and cooperating with relevant institutions and processes to this end

(f) Promoting and supporting research and development with a view to improving forest management and efficiency of wood utilization and the competitiveness of wood products relative to other materials, as well as increasing the capacity to conserve and enhance other forest values in timber producing tropical forests

Forest applications include forest area estimation and mapping, forest monitoring, forest fire assessment and forest management.

TROPICAL TIMBER AGREEMENT, 1994

International Tropical Timber Agreement.

TROPICAL TIMBER AGREEMENT, 1994

A small market already exists for tropical jams, syrups and other retail tropical fruit products.

The forest keeper families programme, involving some 33,000 families committed to maintaining their areas free from drugs and to supervising the recovery of the tropical forest, as well as a programme to provide care to the displaced and reintegrated, will cost Colombia some 300 million dollars next year.

(ii) Tropical rainfall measuring mission

(i) Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission

It looks downright tropical there.

International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994

International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994