Forest Trends advances sustainable forestry and forestry's contribution to community livelihoods worldwide. It aims to expand the focus of forestry beyond timber and promotes markets for ecosystem services provided by forests such as watershed protection, biodiversity and carbon storage.


We have played three roles of strategic convener, strategic analysts, and market catalysts in our efforts to bring about sustainable forest management and forest conservation. We have learned that these three roles are powerful tools, are interrelated, and that there are real risks and tradeoffs between them. For example, active deal making can affect the credibility of our information and limit our effectiveness. We re-examined the issues and options within each of these roles