September 1996 - Issue 4

African forests and UK involvement Out of Africa: disaster and diversity by Ron Kemp, Chairman UK TFF Mount Cameroon Project - Limbe by Glyn Davies ODA-supported activities in Africa by John Hudson The African Timber Trade by Geoff Pleydell WWF-UK: conserving forests in Africa Forest crisis in Equatorial Africa by Dr Marcus Colchester Focus on Forum Participants The Rural Development Forestry Network by Mary Hobley CARE UK SGS Forestry Tear Fund Forum activities: report from secretariat by Jane Thornback Meetings Agenda Theme of next Newsletter

NRI under new ownership On the move ... New management for ODA Forestry Research Programme Kew's botanical Inventory of Mt Kupe Bangor in Cameroon Examples of some ODA research projects in Africa CITES Timber Working Group Tree Database Forest Stewardship Council Prospect - the Wood Database Intergovernmental Panel on Forests UK Biodiversity Manual launched Biodiversity Convention AETFAT 1997 African Forest Action Network (AFAN) Libanona Ecology Centre, Madagascar Atlas of African Forests TREE AID EXPANDS SOS Sahel thriving Cameroon/York collaboration Tropical Biology Association Kew's Sepasal Database World Forestry Congress Cameroon Workshop Commonwealth Forestry Conference

The Natural Resources Institute (NRI) is an internationally recognised centre of expertise on the natural resources sector in developing countries. The ownership of NRI transferred to the University of Greenwich on 1 May 1996. The NRI provide support for the Secretariat of the Tropical Forest Forum.