Asia and the Pacific Forest Health Workshop
Forest Health in a Changing World

Hotel Grand Seasons, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1–3 December 2008

Forest health in a changing world – common but differentiated interests and objectives
Daniel Baskaran

Asia Pacific Forest Invasive Species Network (APFISN)
KV Sankaran
FAO’s Response to Global Forest Health Issues
Gillian Allard
Overview of CABI activities and programmes related to invasive species and plant health
Soetikno S Sastroutomo
Invasive alien species -a threat to forest biodiversity:
Actions under the framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

Junko Shimura
An overview of forest health activities in IUFRO
Lee SuSee
Preventing and containing the global spread of invaders:
An overview of TNC Invasive Species Programme

Duan Hui

Regional/sub-regional initiatives and inter-governmental collaborations
Nik Muhamad
Stock taking in Asia Pacific
KV Sankaran
International collaboration of forest health management in China
Chen Junqi
Plant health services of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community –an overview
Sada N Lal

Current forest health practices in Asia and the Pacific
AK Johari
Village common forests of Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh:
A harbour of forest health and vitality in the degraded landscape

Khaled Misbahuzzaman
Practices of forest health in China
Fan Xibin
Fiji's forest health, invasive and quarantine:
Current strategies and future directions

Sada N Lal
Forest health management in India:
Present scenario and future challenges

C Mohanan
Invasive history of exotic forest insect pests in Korea
Choi KS

Current forest health practices in Asia and the Pacific
Gillian Allard
Collecting information of health problems of some exotic forest trees and agricultural crops in Myanmar
Wai Wai Than
Protecting forest health in New Zealand
PM Stevens
Building a network-based information system for forest health management:
Taiwan experience

Lin Chau Chin
An overview of current status of forest invasive species in Timor-Leste
Pascoal Barros do Carmo
New description of longhorned beetles damaging forest plantations in Vietnam
Pham Quan Thu

Forest health management strategies and activities
Lee SuSee
Indicator species for assessing the health of tropical forest ecosystem
Raja Barizan Raja Sulaiman
Removing noxious Eupatorium adenophorum for bee-hive briquette production improves forest health in community forest in Nepal
Maneesha Rajbhandari
Environmental conditions and gall rust disease development on Falcataria Moluccana in the South East Asia
Sri Rahayu
The use of understorey bird species as indicators of tropical forest health
Mohamed Zakaria Hussin
Cooperative surveillance and management of invasive alien species in the Philippines
Bonifacio F Cayabyab

Linkages between forest health and SFM, biological diversity and pest management activities in non-forest sectors
C Mohanan
Fungi associated with teak mortality in Central India
RK Verma
Patterning population dynamics of pine needle gall midge, Thecodiplosis japonensis (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), by using a self-organizing map
Choi Won Il
Tropical American invasive weeds in Shiwalik Range of North-Western Himalayas of India: An assessment of status and impact
Daizy Rani Batish
Managing Lantana camara and restoring native biological diversity in the Western Ghats, India
Ramesh Kannan
Infestation status of the invasive Erythrina gall wasp Quadrastichus erythrinae Kim (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae) on the coral tree Erythrina variegata in Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia
Arthur YC Chung

Linkages between forest health and soil and water, disturbances (biotic and abiotic), and climate change mitigation and adaptation
Choi Won Il
Stabilization of climate change in the Himalayas
Cheppudira Poonacha Muthanna
Maintenance of teak forest health with reference to various biotic and abiotic components in Central India
PB Meshram
Thoughts on forest management under global climate change
Zhang Shengdong
Atmospheric disturbances due to heavy emission from the sponge iron factories at Raigarh, Chhatisgarh, India and its impact on vegetation and environment
Rupnarayan Sett
Peatland fire in Indonesia as threat to forest ecosystem and its control effort
Ari Wibowo

Legal, institutional and economic frameworks for protection of forest health
Ecological impact of invasive weed Ageratum conyzoides on the structure and composition of the native communities in Northwestern Himalayas and insight into the mechanism of invasion
Harminder Pal Singh
Development of health assessment method in protection and plantation forest
Noor Farikhah Haneda
Economic considerations towards forest health:
Intervention through microfinance and joint forest management

BP Pethiya
Forest health and forest disturbance:
A case for serious consideration in the management of tropical Mt. Makiling

Portia Gamboa-Lapitan