Natural forest management as a conservation tool in the tropics: divergent views on possibilities and alternatives

摘要: A round table discussion was convened to explore divergent views on the potential for natural forest management (NFM) timber contribute wide-scale maintenance of cover and biological diversity in tropical forests. The general argument NFM is that, by conferring relatively more economic value forests that alternative uses, a necessary, though imperfect, means which extensive areas large measure their would be maintained outside nature reserves. centered five topics: biological-diversity-related benefits drawbacks instituting timber, constraints successful alternatives relative merits community versus industrial concessions as mechanisms institute timber.