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12/09/09 - A new species of Carapa in Central Guyana

A new species of Carapa (Meliaceae) from Central Guyana. P.-M. Forget, O. Poncy, R.S. Thomas, D.S. Hammond and D. Kenfack. Brittonia, 61 (4): 301-402. 2009. Communiqué de presse MNHN-CNRS pdf. Sur le site CNRS. On the web : Mongabay.com. Photo : P.-M. Forget, O. Poncy and D. kenfack with a fertile  sample (inflorescence and fruit) of the new species of Carapa akuri in March 2006 at Iwokrama, Guyana. © Pierre-Michel Forget/MNHN.

 

12/06/09 - Carapa surinamensis in Tropical Conservation Science

Mongabay.com scientific journal, Tropical Conservation Science, reaches its second year of existence. The current issue of Tropical Conservation Science (TCS) contains six papers. One of them is about Carapa. In this paper Lermyte and Forget note that many NTFPs are extracted from species largely dependent on animals for dispersal and recruitment and argue that these interactions are highly sensitive to anthropogenic activities. Working in French Guiana and focusing on a large-seeded scatter-hoarded tree species, Carapa surinamensis, the authors set out to develop and test a new rapid assessment protocol to sample and evaluate the impact of human activities such as logging and hunting on seed dispersal and seedling recruitment for C. surinamensis. More at Tropical Conservation Science. (Photo. C. Lermyte in the field © Pierre-Michel Forget/MNHN). Read Mongabay.com

 

09/18/09 - Breaking news on the web

Breaking news on the web. Recent informations available on the web about Andiroba, Carapa in America and other Kobi or Touloucouna in Africa. (generated by Google Alert). This is for a non-profit goal.

 

08/17/09 - AETFAT meeting in Madagascar in April 2010

The "Association pour l'Etude Taxonomique de la Flore d'Afrique Tropicale" or "Association for the Taxonomic Study of the Flora of Tropical Africa" (AETFAT) was established at the botanical institute of the Université Libre de Bruxelles in 1951. It was intended as a platform for contact between colonial botanists working on African regional floras in Paris, London, Lisbon, Brussels etc. to report and publish their findings. Website of the 19th AETFAT Congress in Centre of International Conferences, at Ivato (20 km from Antananarivo) from April 25 to May 1, 2010, Madagascar.

 

 

07/25/09 - Carapa at the Annual ATBC-GTOE meeting in Marburg, Germany, 27-31 July 2009

Four presentations will focus on Carapa at the forthcoming annual meeting of the Association for Tropical Biology and Conservation (ATBC) and the Society of Tropical Ecology (GTOE) held in Marburg, Germany, 27-31 July 2009. A first talk by Patrick Jansen is about "Size-dependence of seed dispersal by a scatter-hoarding rodent", the second talk by Pierre-Michel Forget and Natalie Weber being about “Carapa crop and oil production: to be or not to be sustainable and equitable". A first poster presented by David Kenfack, Mathieu Gueye, and Pierre-Michel Forget (authors) is entitled “Taxonomy and distribution of Carapa (Meliaceae), a new source for biological insecticide in West Africa”. A second poster presented by Natalie Weber, Pierre-Michel Forget and Philippe Birnbaum (Authors) is entitled "Production of insecticide oil from the Carapa tree (Kobi) in South Mali: Traditional values and economic potential".

 

 

05/19/09 - Breaking news on the web

Breaking news on the web. We launch a new page highlighting recent informations available on the web about Andiroba, Carapa in America and other Kobi or Touloucouna in Africa. (generated by Google Alert). This is for a non-profit goal.


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