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Natural Forest Management in Caracaraí, Roraima, Brasilien (Proj.d.Univ. HH)
Project
Project code: vTI-WFW-08-3.11
Contract period: 29.02.2004
- 31.01.2008
Purpose of research: Applied research
Sustainable management of tropical moist forests through private forest owners will become increasingly important. Media report that in Brazil, particularly in Amazonia, approx. 80% of the timber harvested is from illegal sources. Private management of forests according to internationally acknowledged standards offers an opportunity to significantly lower the portion of illegally cut timber. The project area, a pristine forest in Amazonia in the transition zone between moist tropical forests and savannas (cerrado), is extremely diverse in floristic and faunistic terms.
The Department of World Forestry cooperates with the private forest owner. Main tasks are to document the faunistic and floristic diversity, to calculate the Annual Allowable Cut and to elaborate concepts for site-specific silviculture.
Section overview
Subjects
- Forestry
- Resource management
Framework programme
Funding programme
Excutive institution
Institute of International Forestry and Forest Economics (TI-IW)