The nature of forest genetic resources. Impacts of management in production forests. The future of tropical forests. Strategies for in situ conservation in production forests. Case studies: Ghana. Brazil: the Amazon forests. India: the Western Ghat forests, Karnataka.

This paper reports on three regional assessments carried out to identify and draw lessons from on-the-ground initiatives in multiple-use forest management in the Amazon Basin, the Congo Basin and Southeast Asia. In all three regions, information was collected through interviews with country-based forestry experts, forest managers and technicians. A complementary, web-based questionnaire further examines the reasons for the successes and failures of multiple-use forests management initiatives.