Biodiversity conservation in certified forests: an overview

Roderick J. Zagt, Douglas Sheil and Francis E. (Jack) Putz

Section 1. Certification standards

1.1 The Forest Stewardship Council and biodiversity

Marion Karmann, Andre de Freitas and Hans-Joachim Droste

1.2 Forest-related standards and certification schemes

Erik Lammerts van Bueren

1.3 Biocultural diversity in community forestry in Nepal

Freerk Wiersum and Kumud Shrestha

Section 2. Monitoring: options and challenges

2.1 Monitoring biodiversity in certified forests

Toby Gardner

2.2 Monitoring forest activities in Cameroon

Yves Nathan Mekembom

2.3 Locally based monitoring and forest certification

Ben Palmer Fry

2.4 Auditing and biodiversity conservation

Simon Armstrong

2.5 Monitoring the impact of certification

Hans de Iongh and Gerard Persoon

2.6 Certification of non-wood forest products

Paul Vantomme

3.1 Congo Basin timber certification and biodiversity conservation

John R. Poulsen and Connie J. Clark

3.2 Forest certification in Cameroon

Tieme Wanders

3.3 Certification in Indonesia: a practitioner perspective

Allison Bleaney

3.4 Biodiversity and certified community forests in Tanzania

Steve Ball

3.5 Forest certification in indigenous communities in Peru

Alfredo Rodríguez and Carlos Cubas

3.6 Certification, concessions and biodiversity in the Brazilian Amazon

Mark D. Schulze, Marco W. Lentini, Alexander J. Macpherson and James Grogan

3.7 Certified jungles?

Bart W. van Assen

3.8 Biodiversity conservation and forest management in Indonesia

Titiek Setyawati

Section 4. Biodiversity benefits

4.1 The Nature Conservancy and tropical forest certification

Fran Price

4.2 Biodiversity in the Peruvian Amazon

Lucio Brotto, Josil Murray, Davide Pettenella, Laura Secco and Mauro Masiero

4.3 Impacts of certified logging on great apes

Arnold van Kreveld and Ingrid Roerhorst

4.4 Conserving the world’s forests: steps along the journey

George White

4.5 An indirect way to evaluate the impact of certification

Marielos Peña-Claros and Frans Bongers

4.6 Exploring the impacts of certification systems

Ben Cashore and Michael Vandenbergh

5.1 The HCV approach

Christopher Stewart

5.2 Management of HCVFs in Bolivia

Bonifacio Mostacedo and Lincoln Quevedo

5.3 FSC forest certification: promises or pretences?

Wally Menne

5.4 Tropical forest rehabilitation and certification

David Lamb

Steffen Entenmann

6.2 Addressing the bushmeat crisis through certification

Tim Christophersen, Caroline Belair and Robert Nasi

6.3 Biodiversity in burned concession areas

Ferry Slik

6.4 ITTO-IUCN guidelines for biodiversity conservation

Jeff Sayer, Stewart Maginnis, Eduardo Mansur and Agni Boedhihartono

6.5 Economic implications of biodiversity conservation for timber producers

Romain Pirard

6.6 Extending certification to landscape mosaics

Jaboury Ghazoul