UNEP Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch

Title: Portable sawmill in a teak plantation in Kagelu, Central Equatoria
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Description: Plantations such as this teak stand in Kagelu, Central Equatoria, are a valuable asset and potential source of hard currency for Southern Sudan. Commercial exploitation of the forest resources of Southern Sudan is expected to expand with peace and road network improvements. The challenge will be to develop the industry in an environmentally sustainable manner.

Keywords: deforestation, forest conservation, forests, forestry, sustainable development, environmental management, sustainable economic development, sustainable production, Bahr el Jabal (Central Equatoria) state, domestic trade

Title: Officials and representatives from both the hosting and refugee communities inspect a community tree nursery in Fau 5 camp
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
Owner: IUCN - SOLSES
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Keywords: agroforestry, forest conservation, forests, forestry, internally displaced people, post-conflict reconstruction, refugees, war-to-peace transition, environmental management, sustainable economic development, community development, livelihoods

Title: Elders from Shaggarab camp hosting communities inspect a year-old acacia tree plantation
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: agroforestry, forest conservation, forestry, internally displaced people, post-conflict reconstruction, refugees, war-to-peace transition, environmental management, sustainable economic development, sustainable production, livelihoods

Title: These teak trees have not been tended for 20 years, so the productivity of the plantation is well below potential
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Description: The plantations, however, are a valuable asset

Keywords: forest conservation, forests, forestry, environmental risks, sustainable production, Bahr el Jabal, Bahr el Jabal (Central Equatoria) state, Yei, agricultural trade, domestic trade

Title: Forest resources in the desert and semi-desert northern states are extremely limited and in continual decline
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: deforestation, forest conservation, forest degradation, forests, forestry, desertification, deserts, flora, land degradation

Title: Southern Sudan still retains the majority of its forest cover, but deforestation is occurring at a steady rate
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Keywords: deforestation, forest conservation, forest degradation, forests, forestry, swamps, vegetation, flora

Title: Sawn teak in Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Keywords: deforestation, forest conservation, forests, forestry, Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal

Title: Dried fruit for sale in the Tokar region, Red Sea state
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Description: Non-wood forest products such as fruit, nuts, and medicinal herbs are important but often under-valued components of the overall value of forests

Keywords: forest conservation, forests, forestry, food resources, Red Sea state, Tokar delta

Title: A brick kiln near Kadugli, Southern Kordofan
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Description: The remaining forests of Sourthern Kordofan are being consumed by the fuelwood and charcoal industries

Keywords: forest conservation, forest degradation, forestry, energy supply, wood fuels, Southern Kordofan state

Title: Wau district, Western Bahr el Ghazal
Date created: 21 Jun 2007
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Description: When shifting agriculture becomes unsustainable, forest cover disappears permanently

Keywords: agroforestry, deforestation, forest conservation, forest degradation, forests, land use, agriculture, forestry, land degradation, soil degradation, Wau, Western Bahr el Ghazal

Title: Wildfire in Blue Nile state
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Description: Fires lit by pastoralists to promote grass growth destroy existing trees and suppress sapling growth

Keywords: deforestation, forest conservation, forest degradation, forests, grazing, pasture, forestry, rangeland management, Blue Nile state, livelihoods

Title: Inspection of a two-year old plantation in Um Haraza, Sennar state
Date created: 27 Jun 2007
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Description: Reforestation has been successful in central Sudan when the FNC and state officials have been given adequate resources and mandates

Keywords: forest conservation, forests, forestry, environmental management, environmental protection, capacity building, Sennar state