Results of a study of the exploitation of the African monitors in various countries. It includes a look at the economic and ecological aspects of the problem.
Il s'agit du recueil des procès-verbaux de la conférence sur les écosystèmes des forêts denses humides d'Afrique centrale qui a eu lieu à Brazzaville, Congo, du 28 au 30 mai 1996. Il présente les communications des participants qui appartenaient aux milieux gouvernementaux et non-gouvernementaux, au secteur privé, à des agences de bailleurs de fonds multilatéraux et bi-latéraux.
At the meeting of the International Tropical Timber Organization held in Bali in 1990, ITTO adopted the target of ensuring that all tropical timber marketed internationally should, by the year 2000, come from forests that are managed sustainably. This study is an attempt to determine whether the member countries of the ITTO have a legal and administrative basis for managing their production forests in ways which will allow these forests to contribute to biological diversity conservation.
