The XII World Forestry Congress, jointly organised by the Department of Natural Resources Canada, the Ministère des Ressources Naturelles du Québec, and FAO, was held on 21-28 September 2003 in Québec City, Canada. The congress, hosted every six years by an FAO Member country, provides a global forum to discuss forest management, conservation and development. It attracted more than 4,000 participants from over 140 countries and a wide spectrum of issues, in the context of the Congress theme "Forests, Source of Life", was considered. All papers from the congress, some dealing with applications of biotechnologies to forestry, are now available. See http://www.fao.org/forestry/docrep/wfcxii (in English, French and Spanish) or contact [email protected] for more information.

03/10/2003