IUFRO's regional Latin American research group on forest law and environmental legislation : Development, achievements and working-plan

Zürich

2006

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At the IV Ibero-American Congress on Forest Law and Environmental Legislation, in Santiago de Chile, November 2003 and co-sponsored by lUFRO, a special unit inside the lUFRO Research Group 6.13.00, dedicating itself to research on forest and environmental legislation in the American Subcontinent, was established. The new lUFRO Working Party (WP) 6.13.01, Ibero-American Forest and Environmental Law, under the Coordinator, Enrique Gallardo, CONAF, Chile and supported by Deputy Coordinators from defined subregions such as Southern Cone countries, Andean Countries, Central America and Caribbean countries, and Mexico started immediately to elaborate a working programme and to organize joint activities. The forest and environmental legislation was considered as a fundamental instrument for the conservation and a sustainable development of forests. An appropriate legal framework for forest and environmental conservation, corresponding to the conditions and needs of individual countries is to be developed, a difficult task to be achieved. A number of national and sub-regional conferences have been organized or are at present in preparation in order to fid common conclusions and recommendations. Following the IV Congress in Chile in 2003 another Ibero-American Congress took place in 2005 in Mexico, and the VI Congress will be organized end of August 2007, in Quito, Ecuador.