The dilemma of green business in tropical forests: How to protect what it cannot identify

Conservation Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 342-348

  Meijaard, Erik ^a,b,c   Sheil, Douglas ^c,d,e  

^a Jalan Raya Petitenget 1000X   (Indonesia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL FORESTRY RESEARCH   (Indonesia)

^d MBARARA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Uganda)

^e SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Borneo; Forest; IUCN Red List; Logging; Mining; Oil palm; Sustainable forest management; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867305653     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1755263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2012.00252.x     Document Type: Article

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