1.   Nevertheless, the prime objective of forest management remains that of timber production.

2.   The main aim of forest management is timber production.

3.   The only substantive decision of the Yaound session was a resolution asking timber producing nations to estimate what resources were required to achieve sustainable forest management.

4.   The visit left the British with an overall impression of forestry departments with a good understanding of sustainable forest management and with good guidelines and rules to achieve this.

5.   It also calls for increased aid to tropical countries to enable them to achieve sustainable forest management.

6.   Malaysia is calling for industrial countries to compensate tropical timber producers for introducing sustainable forest management.

7.   A new international organisation, the Forest Stewardship Council, has been set up by environmental groups with the aim of setting worldwide standards for good forest management.

8.   Achieving that aim would have a profound effect on the energy industry -- coal and oil-fired power stations are major sources of CO -- and on forest management.

9.   Creating new products out of heretofore marginal or no-value logs is a good way to jump-start rural economies and practice good forest management.