The International Tropical Timber Organisation is running a special seminar in Johannesburg to coincide with the international sustainability summit.
The latter is the biggest event of its kind since the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit a decade ago and will be attended by heads of government and ministers from 174 countries.
The ITTO meeting in the Japan Pavilion near the summit venue on August 27 aims to draw government and media attention to tropical timber issues and the work of the organisation itself.
The topics covered will include the management of the forest buffer zone in the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park in the Congo, the conservation of biological diversity in the timber production forests of Surigao del Sur in the Philippines and integration of forest-based development in the western Amazon.
