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

For further information about the UK Tropical Forest Forum, contact:
Ms Jane Thornback, Coordinator, UK Tropical Forest Forum, c/o Natural Resources Institute, Central Avenue, Chatham Maritime, Kent, ME4 4TB.
Tel: 01634 883954. Fax: 01634 880077. Email: jane.thornback@nri.org

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.



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