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2011-11-30
Forest Day 5 – Press Release
The book Traditional Forest-Related Knowledge: Sustaining Communities, Ecosystems and Biocultural Diversity, published by Springer in November, examines the contribution traditional knowledge has made and continues to make to sustainable resource management. It constitutes the final report of IUFRO's Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge, led by the book's co-editor John Parrotta. The publication will be presented at the Discussion Forum on Social safeguards: protecting the rights and interests of Indigenous Peoples and forest-dependent communities in REDD+, cohosted by IUFRO, UNDP (UN-REDD) and IUCN, on Sunday 4 December 2011, 16:00 – 17:30, La Vita, Olive Convention Centre, Durban, South Africa.
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The 13th IUFRO meeting on Root and Butt Rot of Forest Trees held in September 2011 in Italy discussed, among other things, role of root rots in European and North American forest ecosystems.
