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Dear Readers,

The focus of this issue is biodiversity. Highlights include an interview with Julie Belanger, coordinator of FAO’s first-ever global report on the state of biodiversity launched earlier this year, UNCTAD’s BioTrade initiative and the launch of the NTFP Bioeconomy Taskforce. We also welcome back Sven Walter, new team leader for Forest Products and Statistics, who opens this issue. 

• Future of sustainable wildlife management: CITES considers links to post-2020 biodiversity framework

• We must change our relationship with land to solve climate and biodiversity crises

• Building capacity for the sustainable production and trade in CITES Appendix-II listed Jatamansi

• WWF: the planet is losing forest biodiversity

• Making room for wild foods in forest conservation

• First PEFC-certified chestnuts enter the Spanish market

Cork oak forests and ecosystem services: tools in developing markets
Nuoro, Sardinia 
21 November 2019

Non-wood forest products (NWFPs) are goods of biological origin other than wood, derived from forests, other wooded land and trees outside forests. NWFPs and similar terms such as “minor”, “secondary” and “non-timber” forest products (NTFPs) have emerged as umbrella expressions for the vast array of both animal and plant products other than wood derived from forests or forest tree species. Unlike the term “NWFPs”, “NTFPs” also includes fuelwood and small woods used for domestic tools and equipment.