Pacific Rim Initiative
A Coordinated Plan for Advancing Sustainable Forestry in the Pacific Rim
By Forest Trends, WWF, Chinese Research Center for Ecological and Environmental Economics View PublicationThe forests of the Pacific Rim are critically important, in both global and local terms, are seriously threatened, and thus merit priority attention from conservationists, governments and private industry. Overall, policy and market failures, inappropriate government subsidies, non-discriminating investments and demand, illegal logging and trade, have all driven over-exploitation and inefficiency in the production and use of wood products in many countries in the region.