Economics of Non-Timber Forest Products and Services

The ecological implications of harvesting non-timber forest products

1. The harvest of wild non-timber forest products (NTFP) represents an important source of income to millions of people world-wide. Despite growing concern over the conservation of these species, as well as their potential to foster forest conservation, information on the ecological implications of harvest is available only in disparate case studies. 2. Seventy studies that quantify the ecologi...

Non-timber Forest Products Inventory Perspectives from the United States

Increasing interest in non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has led to their greaterrecognition in sustainable forest management planning. This is evident in local resourcemanagement plans for the Robson Valley in east-central British Columbia, where publicinput shows strong support for the sustainable development of NTFP harvesting.However, information needed to develop sustainab...

Diversity in Forest Management: Non- Timber Forest Products and Bush Meat

This paper provides an overview of the complexity, practical and policy challenges that need to be faced in dealing with sustainable management of forests for non-timber forest products (NTFP). Conservation biologists, resource managers and policy makers are all faced by the high diversity of species used, the lack of knowledge about the biology of many harvested species, and the varying tenure...

Utilization of Non-Timber Forest Products: Issues and Strategies for Environmental Conservation & Economic Development

Response of a tropical tree to non-timber forest products harvest and reduction in habitat size

Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are widely harvested by local people for their livelihood. Harvest often takes place in human disturbed ecosystems. However, our understanding of NTFPs harvesting impacts in fragmented habitats is limited. We assessed the impacts of fruit harvest, and reduction in habitat size on the population structures of Pentadesma butyracea Sabine (Clusiaceae) across two ...