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2011

Sammendrag

Next to expansion of agricultural land and natural disasters, forest fires, illegal logging and bark beetles constitute the largest threat to the pine forests of Central America. Every year, 80-100.000 ha disappears due to the combined activity of the three factors. Natural disasters such as hurricanes and droughts, as well as poor forest management and wildfires lead to a stressed forest which in turn is advantageous for the increase in bark beetle population levels. Epidemic population levels of attacking beetles are able to kill large quantities of forests within weeks. Moreover, dead wood material acts as fuel for wildfires that have escaped control. We propose a monitoring and control regime which aims holistically and directly to the root causes of wildfires, bark beetle outbreaks and subsequent illegal logging in the pine forests of Central America. Monitoring activities focus on community participation and communication, while control of bark beetles is a combination of both long-term sustainable forest management procedures as well as direct and non-destructive control measures of the beetles to reduce their population levels to an endemic level.