From prestonh@home.com Mon Jul 10 10:25:26 2000 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA154698 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:25:23 -0700 Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (imail@ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id KAA10900 for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:25:22 -0700 Received: from C931275-A.home.com ([24.0.234.36]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20000710172521.IITP24904.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@C931275-A.home.com> for ; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:25:21 -0700 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000710102219.00b56bf0@mail> X-Sender: prestonh@mail X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 10:23:24 -0700 To: indknow@u.washington.edu From: Preston Hardison Subject: PUB: Global Forest Resources Assessment Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed To: bioplan Subject: Bioplan : TBFRA 2000 RELEASED bioplan Gillian Chalmers Bioplan update 10 July 2000 UNDP-GEF Biodiversity Planning Support Programme http://www.undp.org/bpsp For Bioplan queries please contact: Ms. Gillian Chalmers UNDP-GEF gillian.chalmers@undp.org (1) 212 906 6628 TBFRA 2000 RELEASED - The new UN-ECE/FAO publication "Forest Resources of Europe, CIS, North America, Australia, Japan and New Zealand" (known as the Temperate and Boreal Forest Resource Assessment or TBFRA-2000)has just been released. It's the most comprehensive set of internationally comparable data on the temperate and boreal forests ever issued. This data set is the region's contribution to the Global Forest Resource Assessment 2000, led by FAO, which will be issued later this year. Unlike earlier assessments, which concentrated on forest area and wood supply, TBFRA expands to provide information on practically all aspects of the forest. The six main chapters are: 1. Area: status and changes, 2. Ownership and management status, 3. Wood supply and carbon sequestration, 4. Biological diversity and environmental protection, 5. Forest condition and damage, and 6. Socio-economic functions. The publication contains about 100 main tables, with statistics and comments by 55 countries (over 700 parameters were requested for each country). A special chapter assesses the reliability and comparability of the data, which were supplied by national correspondents who adjusted the raw national data to the internationally agreed definitions. For further information please contact: Mr. Alexander V. Korotkov, TBFRA-2000 Co-ordinator, Timber Section, Trade Division, United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UN/ECE), Palais des Nations, Room 458, CH - 1211, Geneva 10, Switzerland. Tel.: +41 22 917 2879; Fax: +41 22 917 0041, E-mail: alexander.korotkov@unece.org. Website: http://www.unece.org/trade/timber. The publication (Sales No. E.99.II.E.36, ISBN 92-1-116735-3, US$150)is available through the usual United Nations agencies in most countries, or direct from: United Nations Publications, Sales and Marketing Section, Palais des Nations, Room C-113, CH-1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland, Tel.: +41 22 917 2613; Fax: +41 22 917 0027. E-mail: unpubli@unog.ch. Full text of the press release may be found at: http://www.unece.org/trade/timber/press.htm ------------------ BIOPLAN is an electronic list server established by the UNDP-UNEP implemented Biodiversity Planning Support Programmme and maintained by UNDP-GEF to serve the global community involved in planning for national implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity. To unsubscribe (remove yourself) from this list send a message to: majordomo@undp.org with the subject line BLANK and the following text in the body of the message: UNSUBSCRIBE BIOPLAN followed by your e-mail address, or go to http://stone/undpweb/bpsp/bioplan.cfm .