IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature

arborvitae Issue 44 - Forests: a legal challenge

• Where there is no title: Security of tenure is neither a sufficient nor a necessary condition for trust and confidence about future benefits.
• Feature: Customary laws can have a significant influence on access to – and use of – land and forests in many countries.
• Tigers or tribals: The rules set down in the law certainly fall short of expectations and make its implementation difficult.

31 Oct 2011 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 43 - Attending to gender

• Women and forest ownership: Providing secure tenure rights to both genders can promote sustainable forest management and poverty alleviation.
• Feature: Now is the time for the forestry and environment community to recognize that women are primary stakeholders of forest management schemes.
• Women and community forestry: Women spend significantly more time in forests than men do.

08 Mar 2011 | News story

arborvitae Issue 42 - Communicating Forest Values

• What is a forest? ...at best something nice to look at, somewhere to walk their dog, a refuge from the hurly-burly of daily life.
• How sexy are forests? as a forest expert...you have to realise that most people take decisions not based on the head, but on the heart, guts and sex.
• Perspective: ...kill the extinction message. The 'Love' message trumps the 'Loss' message for grabbing the public's attention.

21 Jan 2011 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 41 - Forest finance

 Forest finance

• Livelihoods and landscapes: So far, the expectations of PES as a market-based solution for conservation and development have not been met.
• Feature: Do public goods always have to remain public?
• REDD: We cannot wait to act on REDD-plus.
• Local forests: Why, despite their global significance, has so little external investment flowed to local forest enterprises – especially in the South?

17 Jun 2010 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 40

Forest and Climate Change

• Negotiations: The US is in ‘catch-up mode’, having effectively been out of the negotiations during the Bush administration.
• Feature: ...the only real fact is that if we don’t act now for a change in the trends of GHG emissions, we are condemning the world to costly and unavoidable consequences.
• Perspective: The distributional game is the most serious hurdle for progress.
• Interview: This was the moment when REDD transformed from a theoretical discussion to a real possibility.

09 Oct 2009 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 39

Forest partnerships

• Amazon: For many of the companies involved, it is the image of partnering with communities that is more important than the product itself.
• Innovation: Partnerships between scientists and practitioners are not working well.
• Forests Dialogue: I’m convinced that partnerships can achieve much by ‘engaging the radical middle’.
• Interview: We haven’t tapped into the real potential of partnerships for forests yet.

30 Apr 2009 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 38

Forests and conflict

• Goma: If we don’t do anything and wait until the war is over, there won’t be any more forests and animals to conserve.
• Sudan: Refugees need many natural resources to help them reconstruct a life, albeit a temporary one, in their hosting area.
• Feature: High levels of violence in forested areas are no coincidence. They don’t call it ‘jungle warfare’ for nothing.
• Chiapas: Mediation is a prerequisite where conservation and indigenous rights clash.

31 Jan 2009 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 37

Agriculture and Productivity – conservation imperatives

• Food and fuel: Prices matter more than ever – and the stakes are very high.
• When you ship 1kg of beef around the world, you’re actually shipping about 16,000 litres of water.
• Feature: Global demand for land to produce food, fuel and fibre will likely lead to a large-scale land grab.
• Forest foods: A complex problem needs complex solutions.
• Production and conservation: Temporary solutions in dynamic landscapes.

17 Sep 2008 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 36

Rights-based approaches to forest conservation

• News: Liberia’s forest exploitation over the last half-century has ridden roughshod over customary property rights.
• Perspective: The urban public generally view forest conservation as an unquestionably ‘good thing’ akin to apple pie, motherhood and soccer.
• Feature: Are the ‘rights of nature’ always consistent with human rights? What about organisms such as viruses which can kill people?
• Around the world: Now that the land is ours we have to take care of it.

07 Aug 2008 | Downloads - publication

arborvitae Issue 35

• Tools for forest conservation
• Forest livelihoods: Two tools for exploring local livelihoods relating to forest use
• Feature: Forest conservation tools: the science of muddling through
• Tools in the field: Four cases of forest conservation tools

31 Dec 2007 | Downloads - publication