I am pleased to announce the following new additions to the FAO Forestry Website: * The Committee on Mediterranean Forestry Questions - Silva Mediterranea - the Home Page for the FAO Statutory Body. (http://WWW.FAO.ORG/WAICENT/FAOINFO/FORESTRY/SILVAMED/default.htm) * Forest Resources Assessment 1990 - global synthesis. FAO Forestry Paper No. 124 (http://WWW.FAO.ORG/WAICENT/FAOINFO/FORESTRY/FO124E/sumen.htm). This report brings together the core of comparable information on the forest of all regions of the world, by country, based on FAOís forest resources assessment 1990. Main issues are the situation in 1990 and the changes between 1980 and 1990 in the area of forest and other wooded land. Woody biomass is another important issue. Morevover, the report gives a review of the status of forest resources information; it shows the demographic background and describes the methods used in the assessment. As a topic of special interest, main results are shown regarding the process of deforestation and forest degradation in the tropics. * FAO European Forestry Commission (http://WWW.FAO.ORG/WAICENT/FAOINFO/FORESTRY/EFC/efc-e.htm). Complete documentation in English, French and Spanish for the 29th Session of the European Forestry Commission, Lahti, Finland, 19-23 October 1998. Regards Stephen A. Dembner Publications and Information Coordinator Forestry Department Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Viale delle Terme di Caracalla 00100 Rome, Italy Tel: +39-6-57054778 FAX: +39-6-57053024
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