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

A green light for REED?
Forests and climate change

October 2007 Issue 34 (400KB)

Forests and trade

May 2007 Issue 33 (400KB)

• News from around the world: Initiatives fo address illegal logging in Acre, Brazil and forest governance in Liberia plus news in brief
• International Initiatives: FLEG and the VPA process in Ghana
• Defining and verifying legality: Timber legality standards and verification mechanisms
• Feature: illegal logging and the future of forests
• Illegal logging and forest livelihoods
• Tackling illegal logging: innovative cases and reports from Indonesia, Mexico, Sri Lanka, DRC and Paraguay.
• WWF Focus: Fighting illegal logging on all fronts
• IUCN Focus: Combating illegal logging - democracy at work
• Reviews in Brief

December 2006 Issue 32 (400KB)

• News from around the world: Good news on soy, not so good on pulp mill financing, plus news in brief
• International initiatives: Plantation-related initiatives by FSC, FAO and The Forests Dialogue
• Plantations and Forests
• Feature: Forest plantations - threatening or saving natural forests?
• Environmental benefits from plantations
• Plantation industry perspectives
• IUCN Focus: Incentives for industrial plantations
• WWF Focus: Smallholder plantations in Vietnam
• Reviews in Brief

September 2006 Issue 31 (400KB)