He is considered the father of tropical forestry.

ITTO had intended to build up a consensus towards achieving full sustainability in tropical forestry by the year 2000.

Smits took a degree in tropical forestry and soil science at the Wageningen University (The Netherlands).

FRIM promotes sustainable management and optimal use of forest resources in Malaysia by generating knowledge and technology through research, development and application in tropical forestry.

In 1949 it was named for Prof. John C. Gifford, an expert on tropical woods and professor of tropical forestry at the University of Miami.

Beard studied at the University of Oxford where he completed his doctoral thesis on tropical forestry.

This is despite evidence that little more than 0.1 per cent of tropical forestry is in reality carried out on a sustainable basis.

Sir Dietrich Brandis is considered the father of tropical forestry.

Upon retiring, Doig co-founded TreeVestors, Inc [2], a company dedicated to emerging market investments of sustainable tropical forestry and ecosystem assets.

Environmental groups and small timber traders from around the world have set up a Forest Stewardship Council, charged with deciding what constitutes "sustainable" tropical forestry.