arborvitæ is the IUCN/WWF Forest Conservation Newsletter that is published jointly by WWF and IUCN three times a year to disseminate general current information and share knowledge on key issues and events that impact the forestry sector and on the conservation and sustainable use of forest resources.

arborvitæ Specials

• News from around the world: Saving deadwood, rebuilding Liberia's forest sector plus news in brief
• News: protected areas: Can PAs met conservation and human needs?
• Meetings and International Initiatives The CBD COP8 and the new ITTA
• Palm oil and forest conservation
• Feature: The role of forests in biodiversity conservation
• Forest concessions and conservation
• Local perspectives on forest conservation
• Agriculture and biodiversity conservation
• IUCN Focus: Can logging save biodiversity?
• WWF Focus: Belief in protected areas
• Reviews in Brief...and feedback on the readership survey

June 2006 Issue 30 (400KB)

• News from around the world (Bolivia, Mauritius and more)
• News: protected areas
• Meetings and International Initiatives (The World Summit 2005)
• Poverty-environment links in the field
• Feature: Forests and poverty reduction - an economics perspective
• Forests and poverty reduction: historical trends
• Forests and poverty reduction: the case of plantations
• Debates: Forest conservation and poverty reduction: compatible or competing?
• WWF Focus: Forests and poverty in Zambia's Copperbelt
• IUCN Focus: Non-timber forest products in Russia
• Reviews in Brief

December 2005 Issue 29 (800KB)

• News from around the world (Brazil, Borneo and more)
• News: protected areas
• Meetings and International Initiatives (Global Partnership on FLR, UNFF-5)
• Case Studies: moving toward FLR (Livelihoods in Tanzania, Argentina and Madagascar)
• Feature: Forest Landscape Restoration - Seeing the Bigger Picture
• More FLR case studies (Peru, England, India and China)
• Opinion: the challenge of FLR
• IUCN Focus: Rallying support for restoration in Argentina
• WWF Focus: Restoring cork oak landscapes in Portugal
• Reviews in Brief

August 2005 Issue 28 (451KB)

• News on the Indian Ocean tsunami, tsunami impacts on protected areas plus other news in brief
• The World Conservation Congress, the Climate Change Convention and the CITES Ramin listing
• Feature: Forests, natural disasters and human security
• Forests and floods: Does logging cause floods? Will rural-urban migration reduce floods?
• Natural disasters: socio-political issues
• People-led protection, the case of Haiti , and the ‘upstream degradation’ theory
• Livelihoods and forests: Trees in pastoralists’ drought mitigation strategies
• WWF’s response to the tsunami disaster
• IUCN’s response to the tsunami disaster Reviews in brief

March 2005 Issue 27 (451KB)

• 2-3 News from around the world: Updates on ITTA and the Congo Basin Forest Partnership plus news in brief
• 4 News: protected areas: Are Protected Areas working?
  Plus news in brief
• 5-6 News: meetings: Meetings on forest sector decentralization, mahogany conservation, forest fires and agroforestry, plus research in brief
• 7 Livelihoods and forests: Customary ownership of protected areas in PNG
• 8–11 Feature: Forest ownership shifts and their implications for conservation
• 12-13 Forest ownership: Legal and institutional issues. Forest sector decentralization, forest tenure law and India’s Unclassed State Forests
• 14 IUCN focus: Forest privatization in new EU member states, and forest
  ownership and ecosystem management approaches
• 15 WWF focus: Community-based forest management in Tanzania and recognizing tenure rights in the Philippines
• 16 Reviews in brief