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REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL SOURCES OF SCIENTIFIC DATA AND OPTIONS ON TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL FORESTS
As emphasized in the text of these Guidelines, assessors should exhaust local sources of information, and in particular solicit data and opinions from local residents, before turning to more remote sources of data.
AFRICA
Centre Technique Forestier Tropical (CTFT), Nogent-sur-Marne, France F-94130
Commonwealth Forestry Institute (CFI), Oxford, England OX1 3RB
Institut d'Ecologie Tropicale (IET), Université Nationale, B.P. 8109, Abidjan, Côte-d'Ivoire
Institut National pour l'Etude et la Recherche Agronomiques (INERA), B.P. 1513, Kisangani, Zaïre
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Avenue du Mont-Blanc, Gland, Switzerland CH-1196
Laboratoire de Botanique et Ecologie, Université Nationale du Zaïre, Lumumbashi, Zaïre
Office de la Recherche Scientifique et Technique Outre-Mer (ORSTOM), 70-74 Route d'Aulnay, Bondy, France F-93140
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), Division of Ecological Sciences, MAB Project 1, 7, Place de Fontenoy, Paris, France F-75700
University of Ibadan, Department of Forest Resources Management, Ibadan, Nigeria
ASIA AND PACIFIC
Araneta University Foundation, Malabon, Rizal, The Philippines
Botanical Survey of India, P.O. Botanic Garden, Howrah 711103, West Bengal, India
Centre Technique Forestier Tropical (CTFT), 94 Nogent-sur-Marne, France
Commonwealth Forestry Institute (CFI), Oxford, England 9X1 3RB
CSIRO Division of Plant Industry, Rain Forest Ecology Section, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068 Australia
Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun, Uttar Pradesh, India 248006
Forest Research Institute, Kepong, Malaysia
International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN), Gland, Switzerland CH-1196
National Biological Institute, Regional Centre for Tropical Biology (BIOTROP), Bogor, Java, Indonesia
School of Biological Sciences, University of Malaysia
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco), 7 Place de Fontenoy, Paris, France F-75700
University of the Philippines, College of Forestry, Los Baños, The Philippines
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE), Turrialba, Costa Rica
Institute of Tropical Forestry, US Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico 00928
Instituto Forestal Latinoamerioano de Investigación y Capacitación (IFLAIC), Apartado 36, Venezuela
Instituto de Investigaciones Forestales, Carrero 8, 40-78, Apartado Aéreo 8668, Bogotá, Colombia
Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA), C.P. 478, 69000 Manaus, Amazonia, Brazil
Instituto Venezuelano de Investigaciones Científicas (IVIC), Centro de Ecología, Apartado 1827, Caracas 101, Venezuela
Max-Planck-Institut, Abt. Tropenökologie, P.F. 165, Plön, West Germany D2320
New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York USA 10458
ORSTOM, Cayenne, Guyane Française
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, P.O. Box 2072, Balboa, Panama
GENERAL
FAO Forest Resources Division, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, Rome, 00100, Italy
UNEP INFOTERRA Environmental Information Retrieval System, Nairobi, Kenya
UNEP/FAO Earth Watch and Global Environment Monitoring System (GEMS), Nairobi, Kenya and Rome, Italy
USAID/US Forest Service, Program for Forestry Support, P.O. Box 2417, Washington, DC 20013, USA