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  Link between spirit forest and biodiversity conservation: case study at Son la province

  Research Center for Forest Ecology and Environment, Vietnam, 2007

  This study examines spirit forest in two communities in Son la province, Vietnam.  Using a participatory approach, it analyses traditional regulation, local knowledge on spirit forest and community forest protection. Standard vegetation measurements were also carried out in several spirit forests in Son la province.
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  Tree diversity analysis: a manual and software for common statistical methods for ecological and biodiversity studies

  World Agroforestry Centre, 2006

  This guide provides a solid practical foundation for training in statistical methods for ecological and biodiversity studies.
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  Greenwash: critical analysis of FSC certification of industrial tree monocultures in Uruguay

  World Rainforest Movement, 2006

  In Uruguay there is growing opposition to the large-scale monoculture plantations of Eucalyptus and Pine. This has partly originated from years of campaigning by local environmental, social and trade union organisations, who have been documenting the impacts of this forestry model.
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  Global forest resources assessment 2005: progress towards sustainable forest management

  Forestry Department, FAO, 2005

  This extensive FAO assessment of global forest resources, describes the extent, uses and value of forest resources covering 229 countries and territories between 1990 and 2005.
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  The institutional paradox of community based wildlife management

  Global Development Network, 2003

  The paradox of institutional development for community based wildlife management is that a phase of co-management is a necessary requirement before community based initiatives can be established.
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  Natural resource conflict management case studies: an analysis of power, participation and protected areas

  Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, 2003

  This report presents a collection of case studies which focus on processes of conflict management and resolution and the different ways and means that conflicts are addressed.
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  Forest conservation and the rural poor: a call to broaden the conservation agenda

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2001

  This paper begins by asking why forest conservationists should consider poverty reduction.
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  Running pure: the importance of forest protected areas to drinking water

  WWF-World Wide Fund For Nature, 2003

  This report presents arguments for the potential role of protected areas in helping to maintain water supply to major cities. It demonstrates that water provides a powerful argument for protection.
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  Tropical wildfires pose new threat to coral reefs

  SciDev.Net, 2003

  This article reports on two reports in Science, the full text of which can be accessed from SciDev. The first of the Science reports provides evidence that the Indonesian forest fires created a 'red tide' when smoke from the fires landing on water increased the iron levels in the sea. The red tide suffocated the corals and seems to have caused serious damage to the reefs around the wildfires.
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  ‘Is the best the enemy of the good? Livelihoods perspectives on bushmeat harvesting and trade – some issues and challenges’

  Policy and Environment Programme, ODI, 2003

  This paper makes a case for bushmeat as a theme of interest to development policy. Drawing on a range of secondary sources, it argues that there are two principal reasons for development assistance to address the issue of bushmeat management: its importance in the livelihood strategies of the poor, and its relevance to wider issues of public governance in forest-rich areas.

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