The Global Timber Tracking Network (GTTN) Regional Workshop for Asia will be organised back-to-back with the IAWA-IUFRO international symposium on “Challenges and Opportunities for Updating Wood Identification”, from 20-23 May, in Beijing, China. This is through cooperation with the Chinese Research Institute of Wood Industry of the Chinese Academy of […]
APFW 2019 will be the fourth Asia-Pacific Forestry Week following events held in Hanoi, Viet Nam in April 2008, Beijing, China in November 2011, and Pampanga, the Philippines in February 2016. APFW 2019 will comprise various workshops, seminars, and other partner events organized along five streams: Restoring our forests and […]
The Groupe des Spécialistes et Passionnés des Baobabs de Madagascar (GSPBM) announces the opening of call for symposium for the International Congress on Baobabs, which will be held in Madagascar, Morondava from 7th to 9th August 2019. The guidelines for submitting a symposium can be found on our website in French […]
The 18th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (CoP) to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) was postponed due to the impacts of the heinous acts committed on 21 April 2019 in Sri Lanka. It will now be held in Geneva, […]
IUFRO 2019 Congress will be held at Curitiba of Brazil from September 29 to October 5, 2019. The Congress is calling for abstracts of sessions. Within this Congress, IAWA initiated an IAWA-IUFRO Session (Symposium) -- C5d New Methods and Applications of Timber Identification, under the Congress theme Forests and Forest […]
This event is intended to enable dialogue and inspire action and partnerships to more effectively implement and monitor timber trade legality and due diligence measures. Washington Forest Legality Week is a multi-stakeholder, international event, drawing stakeholders from governments, the private sector, civil society, the scientific community, and service providers such […]
ITTO will co-convene the international forum, “ Together Towards Global Green Supply Chains”, in Shanghai and Huzhou, China, on 22–25 October 2019 in response to challenges and the changing demand in consumer markets underpinned by legality and sustainability requirements. The forum will highlight the importance of legal and sustainable wood […]
The European timber sector has focused on both ensuring its sources of supply are legal and on growing market share for verified sustainable tropical wood. The Sustainable Tropical Timber Coalition (STTC) 2019 Conference looks at how these dual efforts can interrelate to increase verified sustainable timber supply and demand and […]
The objective of the project was to develop genetic reference data to assign the country of origin for seven tree species in Africa and for seven tree species in Latin America. The project involved partners from eight African countries and four Latin American countries. Please contact Dr Céline Blanc-Jolivet (celine.blanc-jolivet(at)thuenen.de) […]
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