Our results provide highly valuable information to implement forest management plans.
Results from this study will be used to implement forest and fire management activities directed toward ecosystem restoration and maintenance.
Simile is not unique in this ability, and Vensim is an alternative that has been used to implement forest growth simulators (e.g., Garcia and Ruiz, 2003).
Liberia is emerging from a major civil war and is at the center of West Africa's Ebola epidemic — a situation that Barclay believes will make it difficult to implement forest protections.
Implementing community forest management programmes to combat this type of degradation and to reverse it so that forest biomass is enhanced, does not require major policy changes in most countries and has low opportunity costs.
Tropical countries face special specific problems in implementing sustainable forest management (SFM).
Among the resolutions to be considered by ministers are targets for nations to achieve by 2020, including developing and implementing national forest programmes.
We conclude, based on the evaluation of the two regional plans, that regional biodiversity conservation goals may be better achieved by implementing sustainable forest management practices across all ownerships and involving all stakeholders and the broader community.
We recommend easy-to-implement forest management strategies including maintaining forest next to logging roads; preserving fruiting trees and trees with cavities, both standing and fallen; and blocks of remote, less disturbed, mid- to high-elevation forest with understorey vegetation.
We implemented a forest management regime whereby forest stands are evaluated every 20 years to determine if the stand is ready to be entered and timber removed.
