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Download Complete Document (Pdf ) March 2002 ISSN 1020-3435 9 An information bulletin on Non-Wood Forest Products EDITORIAL CONTENTS rriving at our ninth issue and looking back over a time span of nine years since 3 SPECIAL FEATURES the first issue of Non-Wood News in 1994 provides us with a unique opportunity • Bushmeat A to reflect on and take stock of the “lessons learned” in preparing this newsletter. - Bushmeat – a resource at risk The purpose of Non-Wood News is still as valid now in 2002 as it was in 1994. - The sustainable use of wild species Quoting the Editorial of the first issue: The purpose of Non-Wood News, as an for meat information bulletin, is to provide readers with useful information and insight about the - Bushmeat Crisis Task Force promise that the future holds in the field of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) and the - Hunting in the Taï region, Côte issues to be addressed with regard to their sustainable development. d’Ivoire In view of the numerous contributions and feedback we receive from readers - The Jane Goodall Institute worldwide, we hope that we have indeed contributed to more information sharing on - Trade in bushmeat NWFPs among a wide range of people from different backgrounds and countries. With • Biometrics the increased accessibility to electronic communications, the NWFP-Digest-L was - Design of techniques to assess initiated in 2000 as a monthly e-mail information bulletin to strengthen and contribute non-wood forest products in ACP further to easier information exchange among African countries (EC-FAO project, people interested in the development component 4) of NWFPs. In addition, Non-Wood - Resource assessment of non-wood News also became available online forest products. Experience and through our NWFP Web site, which biometric principles – new contains all previous issues of both publication in FAO’s NWFP series Non-Wood News and the NWFP- Digest-L, in order to facilitate 11 NEWS AND NOTES access to the wealth of • Anticonvulsant activity of Indian herb information which has been • Asociación para la conservación de accumulating over these nine years. la cuenca amazónica Regarding the second point of the • Ayurveda purpose of the newsletter, i.e. “... about • Bioprospecting or biopiracy? NON-WOOD NEWS the promise that the future holds in the - Biopirates raid trees field of NWFPs”, there indeed we still - From the jungle to the clinic is compiled by Tina Etherington, Wood and Non-Wood Products Utilization Branch need to work hard to make this “promise” - Brazil sees promise in jungle (FOPW) of the FAO Forest Products Division. a reality for the millions of households plants, but tribes see peril Technical support for this issue was provided worldwide who depend heavily on NWFPs • Ecoport – access portal to ecology by Paul Vantomme, Sven Walter and François for their subsistence needs and income. knowledge for natural resource Ndeckere-Ziangba; design, graphics and In response to this challenge, FAO’s managers desktop publishing were coordinated by Tina Etherington. NWFP Programme, which in its early • Equator Initiative seeks nominations stages gave strong emphasis to activities for tropical biodiversity awards Non-Wood News is open to contributions by on raising awareness of the role and • FAOTERM readers. Contributions may be edited to fit the contribution of NWFPs to rural • Field courses in rain forest and appropriate size and focus of the bulletin. development and poverty alleviation, is marine ecology If you have any material that could be included in the next issue of Non-Wood News now giving greater importance to the • Fingerprinting bamboo for the benefit of other readers, kindly send it, activities which contribute directly to the • Fruits for the future before 15 January 2003, to: development of the NWFP sector. Key • Journals and newsletters NON-WOOD NEWS – FOPW actions include the elaboration of - Conservation and Society FAO, Viale delle Terme di Caracalla methodologies for assessing resources - Forest certification newsletter 00100 Rome, Italy E-mail: [email protected] providing NWFPs, statistical data at the - Forest Integrity Network (FIN) www.fao.org/forestry/nwfp/nonwood.htm national level for the production and trade newsletter FAO home page: www.fao.org of NWFPs, or further clarification of the - Journal of Tropical Medicinal Plants contribution of certification and benefit- - Natural Product Radiance The designations employed and the presentation sharing arrangements to the sustainable - Revista Forestal Centroamericana of material in this publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part management of NWFPs, as well as the - Voices from the Forest of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the promotion of selected NWFPs of key • International Doctoral Program for United Nations (FAO) concerning the legal status importance, such as rattan, edible forest Development Studies of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its plants or mushrooms, by identifying major • International Year of Mountains frontiers or boundaries. constraints and actions and projects • Los bosques pueden contribuir al required for enhancing their sustainable alivio de la pobreza and equitable development. • New Forests Project ➧ ➧ 2 EDITORIAL CONTENTS In the meantime, there have been some • Plant Resources of South-East Asia 58 ECONOOK changes in the staffing of FAO’s NWFP (PROSEA) • Danish ecolabelling campaign forges Programme. Ms Laura Russo has taken • Plant Resources of Tropical Africa ahead up new responsibilities within FAO and is (PROTA) • Se creó la primera área de now dealing with the assessment of the • Potential oilseed trees of Africa conservación privada environmental impact of forest harvesting. • Potential role of non-timber forest • Gorilla-based tourism: a realistic Laura has been with the NWFP group, products in the coping strategies of source of community income in and particularly with Non-Wood News, rural HIV/AIDS-affected households Cameroon? almost since its conception. We want to in sub-Saharan Africa • Kumrose Community Forest, Nepal thank her for her tremendous and much • Scientific Boards Society of • Nature Reserve in Viet Nam: Na appreciated contribution and wish her Research Institute of Forests & Hang dam threatens forests, people every success in her new assignment. At Rangelands and wildlife the same time, we welcome Mr François • Sustainable for Whom? • Forests and conflict Ndeckere-Ziangba who has joined us. • Training programme on leadership François has considerable experience and adaptive management in forest 62 INTERNATIONAL ACTION with a wide range of forestry issues and environments • FAO, Center for Tropical Forest knowledge of NWFPs of Central Africa to • TREES international training courses Science, Convention on Biodiversity, share with us. • Using local knowledge in NWFP IUCN/SSC Medicinal Plant Specialist I would like to take this opportunity to inventory Group, Overseas Development give special thanks to the person who Institute, TRAFFIC, Tropenbos actually makes it all happen, Ms Tina 25 PRODUCTS AND MARKETS International Etherington. Without her dedication and • Agarwood, Bamboo charcoal and many long hours of work in compiling vinegar, Edible insects, Honey, 75 RECENT EVENTS Non-Wood News and the NWFP-Digest, Mushrooms, Rattan we would not even be able to produce 83 FORTHCOMING EVENTS them. 34 COUNTRY COMPASS And, last but not least, all of this would • Bangladesh, Brazil, Cameroon, 88 PUBLICATIONS OF INTEREST not have been possible if it were not for Canada, Chile, Honduras, India, the many reactions and text contributions Jordan, Kenya, Lao People’s 95 WEB SITES we receive from you, the readers. After all, Democratic Republic, Lebanon, Non-Wood News is made by its readers Malaysia, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria, 98 READERS’ RESPONSE for its readers. Again our sincere thanks Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, go to all of you. Russian Federation, Somalia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Paul Vantomme United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe Non-wood forest products (NWFP) are goods of biological origin other than wood, derived from forests, other wooded land and trees outside forests. Non-timber forest products (NTFP), another term frequently used to cover this vast array of animal and plant products, also includes small wood and fuelwood. However, these two terms are used synonymously throughout this bulletin. Other terms, such as “minor”, “secondary” or “speciality” forest products, are sometimes used to keep original names and/or titles. NON-WOOD NEWS, No. 9, March 2002 3 SPECIAL FEATURES growing commercial market in the cities is explains, “so nobody feels they own the BUSHMEAT driving the trade – and this urban fashion forest, and wildlife is considered ‘fair for bushmeat feeds off rural poverty. game’ to the person who gets there first Commercial trade in wild animals Basically, a rich man hands out guns and or can pay the biggest bribe.” threatens species and deprives poor a few pennies to the locals, and then goes communities of food. back to the city with a fortune in meat.” Hunting sustainability Other forest products and activities that Bushmeat is a huge industry, but many Bushmeat – a resource at risk generate revenue are also threatened by developing countries lack the capacity to The next time you go to a restaurant in the booming and illegal bushmeat trade. collect taxes or enforce hunting Africa and bushmeat is on the menu, These include animal parts used for regulations, and bribery of poorly paid think before you eat. The chances are medicinal and ritual purposes, local and national officials is a problem. that the animal on your plate is the victim photographic safaris and trophy hunting – Moreover, wildlife protection has generally of commercial hunters, whose activities the backbone of eastern and southern consisted of punitive and selective laws are robbing African communities of Africa’s multimillion dollar tourism industry. aimed at protecting a few charismatic important natural resources and the world Statistics on the bushmeat trade are animal species while ignoring the needs of irreplaceable biodiversity.
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