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IUFRO The Advocate for Forest Science.
This double issue of IUFRO News right before the XXIII IUFRO World Congress publishes a series of meeting reports and latest news from GFIS and GFEP and announces upcoming events and new publications, among other things. The International Conference on Sustainable Management of Multi-purpose Poplar Plantations held in China in May 2010 focused on genetic breeding and intensive cultivation, plantation health and sustainable management, wood bio-materials and bio-energy utilization, and ecological services of poplar plantations. From 6 to 12 June 2010 a joint IUFRO conference on extension and technology transfer with a focus on problems and issues in managing small-scale forest property was held in Bled, Slovenia. And the WorldDendro 2010 International Conference on Dendrochronology, Rovaniemi, Finland, discussed the application of tree rings as environmental sensors.
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, 2010 (Word document)
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.