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IUFRO The Advocate for Forest Science.
In this issue you can read about the IUFRO Conference held 17-20 August 2009 in Mount Gambier, South Australia on 'Meeting Multiple Demands for Forest Information: New Technologies in Forest Data Gathering'. There are also reports from the World Forestry Congress in Argentina and the successful IUFRO activities there, for example, the symposium on "Emerging issues in forest science". As usual, you will find a section on latest publications, announcements including, among other things, Forest Day 3 at the upcoming Copenhagen Climate Summit, and, of course, a selection of IUFRO and non-IUFRO meetings.
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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.