Possibilitites and Approaches toward Community Forestry in the Caribbean. Proceedings of the Tenth Meeting of Caribbean Foresters. Held in Georgetown, Guyana on June 13-16, 2000.

摘要

The 10th Caribbean Foresters Meeting continues a tradition that started in St. Lucia in May 1982. The United State Forest Service, through its International Institute of Tropical Forestry, located in Puerto Rico, has organized and sponsored this activity every two years since that time. The event brings together foresters and other government officials working in the wise use of their countries' forest resources. The participants of the meetings have selected and developed the following themes during the last nine meetings; effects of natural disasters, watershed management, forest recreation, wildlife management, wetlands management, sustainable forest resource management, and economics in Caribbean forestry, protected areas management, and biodiversity. The following countries have hosted the meetings: St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Trinidad and Tobago, Martinique, Jamaica, Grenada, and the Dominican Republic. The proceedings of each meeting have been published by the USFS each year between meetings. As we enter the new millennium and the third decade of this event, we are glad to be sponsoring it this year in collaboration with the Guyana Forestry Commission, the Puerto Rico Conservation Foundation and the Food and Agriculture Organization. The selected theme of the 10th Meeting is 'Possibilities and Approaches toward Community Forest.' It is our hope that the sharing of practical experiences and lessons learned by natural resource managers regarding this theme will further the conservation of the region's forests through the application of sound technical approaches and the active participation of local people.