ITTO

The International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) is an international organization promoting the conservation and sustainable management, use and trade of tropical forest resources; its members are both timber-producing and purchasing countries. It was established in 1986 and is financed via voluntary pledges. ITTO promotes the conservation and sustainable management, use and trade of tropical forest resources. Since 2006, it publishes an annual report on the status of tropical forest management in which information on the area and condition of tropical rain forests and their management are collected. Various organizations criticize the data published by FAOStat and ITTO, pointing out that these are partly wrong, incomplete and not up to date. However, due to the lack of other freely available global data sets, we use these sources of data as a reference nevertheless.

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Data tables

For some select map layers, the information portal ‘War and Peace’ provides the user with all used data sets as tables.

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Country portraits

In the country reports, data and information are collected by country and put into tables that are used in the modules as a basis for maps and illustrations.

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Navigation and operation

The information and data of each module are primarily made available as selectable map layers and are complemented by texts and graphs. The map layers can be found on the right hand side and are listed according to themes and sub-themes.

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