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IUFRO The Advocate for Forest Science.
IUFRO News Issue 9, 2008, publishes excerpts from the draft report from the conference on "Adaptation of Forests and Forest Management to Changing Climate with Emphasis on Forest Health: A Review of Science, Policies and Practices" held in Umeå, Sweden, 25-28 August 2008. The newsletter also announces that the IUFRO Congress Scientific Committee (CSC) is now accepting session proposals for the 2010 IUFRO World Congress, 23-28 August, Seoul, Korea. In addition, IUFRO repeats its invitation to fill in the questionnaire on the services and benefits of IUFRO at http://www.iufro.org/questionnaire by 10 October 2008.
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Multipurpose forest ecosystem management, silviculture in tropical forests and transboundary conservation of endangered tree species are major topics of the January issue of IUFRO News.
In the coming decades, forests will play a major role in our planet's carbon cycle and in our efforts to manage the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.
Read about IUFRO's activities at the UN Durban Climate Change Conference and at the Asia Pacific Forestry Week in Beijing, and learn about IUFRO meetings, new publications and upcoming events.
Forest pathologists propose to phase out all trade in plants and plant products that are of high risk to forest health worldwide. Their proposal is articulated in the Montesclaros Declaration.
"Desafíos de los bosques amazónicos y oportunidades para el manejo forestal comunitario" in Spanish language has been published as CIAS Discussion Paper 20 & IUFRO Occasional Paper 25.