Annex. Summary information on elaboration process of the report

Release date	16/02/2006

Please provide summary information on the process by which this report has been prepared, including information on the types of stakeholders who have been actively involved in its preparation and on material which was used as a basis for the report

Consultation process for the preparation of the report

7.05.2001: First meeting of the contact group 'Forest Biodiversity' operating under the Steering Committee 'Biodiversity Convention'.

28.06.2001: Second meeting of the contact group. Start of the drafting process for the thematic report on forest biodiversity.

July-December 2001: Belgian Presidency of EU. Little progress on the thematic report. Contact group meets four times to prepare SBSTTA-7.

November 2001: Input by the Walloon Region.

16.01.2002: Seventh meeting of the contact group. Presentation of first draft and discussion on the way forward.

January 2002: Input by the Flemish Region. Voluntary report of Belgium to UNFF-2 is provided for the report.

February 2002: Input by the Brussels Region.

March 2002: Second draft ready and sent for consultation to the contact group.

April 2002: Third draft ready and placed on the website of the Belgian Clearing-House Mechanism for public consultation by all stakeholders. The document was accessed 75 times between April and June, but no comments came through that channel.

June 2002: 8th Meeting of the contact group. Final contributions.

July 2002: Submission to and acceptance by the Steering Committee 'Biodiversity Convention'.

 

Reference material used to prepare the report

1. Afdeling Bos & Groen (2001). Beheervisie voor openbare bossen. Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 98 pp.
2. Afdeling Bos & Groen (2001). De bosinventarisatie van het Vlaams gewest. Resultaten van de eerste inventarisatie 1997-1999. Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, 486 pp.
3. De Schepper C., Goyvaerts K., André J.-Y., Laurent C., Lejeune X., Eds.(2001). Voluntary report by Belgium on the implementation of the IPF/IFF action proposals in the framework of the preparation for the 2nd session of the United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF). 93 pp.
4. Deronde L., Lejeune X., Weyembergh G.(1992). Découvrez la Forêt de Soignes. Région de Bruxelles-Capitale, Cabinet du Ministre Didier Gosuin chargé de l'Environnement et de la Conservation de la Nature, Centre d'Information de la Forêt de Soignes, 76 pp.
5. Division Nature et Forêts (1998). Santé et biodiversité en forêt wallonne. Travaux de la Conservation de la Nature N°20. Actes des colloques du 7.11.1997 (Namur) et 27-28.11.2001 (Gembloux). Ministère de la Région wallonne, Direction générale des Ressources naturelles et de l'Environnement, 596 pp.
6. Hallet C., Malaisse F., Eds. (1996). État de l'Environnement Wallon 1995. Partie 3. Forêt et sylviculture. Direction générale des Ressources naturelles et de l'Environnement, Cellule de coordination de l'Etat de l'Environnement Wallon. 121 pp.
7. Instituut voor Bosbouw en Wildbeheer (2001). BosreservatenNieuws Nr. 1 (Januari 2001). 12 pp.
8. Instituut voor Bosbouw en Wildbeheer (2002). BosreservatenNieuws Nr. 2 (Januari 2002). 12 pp.
9. Kuijken E., Boeye D., De Bruyn L., De Roo K., Dumortier M., Peymen J., Schneiders A., Van Straaten D., Weyembergh G. (2001). Natuurrapport 2001. Toestand van de natuur in Vlaanderen: cijfers voor het beleid. Mededeling van het Instituut voor Natuurbehoud Nr. 18, Brussel, 366 pp.
10. Laurent C. (1997). La Gestion durable de la forêt en Wallonie. Édition de Juin 1997. Direction générale des Ressources naturelles et de l'Environnement, Division de la Nature et des Forêts. Ministère de la Région Wallonne. 56 pp.
11. Lecomte H., Koestel G., Rondeux J. (1999). La gestion forestière durable en Région wallonne : l'apport de l'inventaire permanent. Partie 2 : Intégration des indicateurs à l'inventaire. Silva Belgica, 106(2): 7-14.
12. Rameau J.-C., Gauberville G., Drapier N. (2000). Gestion forestière et diversité biologique - Wallonie et Luxembourg. Identification et gestion intégrée des habitats et espèces d'intérêt communautaire. Engref/ONF/IDF/Ministère de la Région Wallonne.
13. Tack, G., Van Den Bremt P., Hermy M. (1993). Bossen van Vlaanderen, een historische ecologie. Davidsfonds, Leuven. 320 pp.

 

Online information (updated June 2002)

Federal level:

· Belgian Biodiversity Platform. http://www.biodiversity.be/bbpf/index.htm
· Belgian Clearing-House Mechanism. http://www.naturalsciences.be/bch-cbd/
· Belgian Federal Office for Scientific Technical and Cultural Affairs.
http://www.belspo.be
· Belgian Forum on Forest Biodiversity. http://www.biodiversity.be/bbpf/forum/forest/forestintro.html
· Biodiversity Resources in Belgium. http://www.br.fgov.be/BIODIV
· Federal Plan for Sustainable Development.
http://www.cidd.fgov.be/pub/PL200004/PL200004en.pdf
· Greenpeace Belgium. http://www.greenpeace.be
· Ministry of Social Affairs, Public Health and, Environment and Animal Welfare. http://minsoc.fgov.be/
· National Botanic Garden of Belgium. http://www.br.fgov.be/
· Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences. http://www.naturalsciences.be/
· Royal Museum for Central Africa. http://www.africamuseum.be/
· Sonian Forest (general awareness website, by the 3 Belgian Regions). http://www.foret-de-soignes.be/ or http://www.zonienwoud.be/
· Sustainable Development in Belgium (portal). http://www.billy-globe.org/
· Woodnet, association of national federations of the forest and timber industry. http://www.woodnet.com/
· WWF Belgium. http://www.wwf.be

Flemish Region:

· AMINAL - Website of the environmental administration.
http://www.mina.be/
· Institute for Forestry and Game Management. http://www.ibw.vlaanderen.be/
· Institute of Nature Conservation. http://www.instnat.be
· Nature report 2001. http://www.instnat.be/nature_report/publications/
· Natuurpunt. http://www.natuurpunt.be
· Results of the VLINA research project 'Indicators for forest biodiversity'. http://www.mina.vlaanderen.be/wiedoetwat/aminal/taken/natuur/bossenbiodiversiteit.htm (in Dutch)

Walloon Region:

· Ardenne et Gaume. http://www.ardenneetgaume.be.tf/
· AVES. http://www.aves.be
· Centre de recherche de la Nature, de la forêt et du bois. http://mrw.wallonie.be/dgrne/csg/
· Environmental Plan for Sustainable Development 1995. http://mrw.wallonie.be/dgrne/pedd/c0e_tm.htm
· Financial incentives for the private forest owner: http://mrw.wallonie.be/dgrne/publi/dnf/forets/dnfsubv1.htm
· Forest-related legislation. http://mrw.wallonie.be/dgrne/legis/dnf/menudnf.htm
· Information System on Biodiversity in Wallonia. http://mrw.wallonie.be/dgrne/sibw/
· L'Or Vert (a website in French on forest genetic resources). http://www.cape.be/studio/orvert/
· Réserves naturelles et ornithologiques de Belgique. http://www.rnob.be/
· State of the Walloon Environment 2000. http://environnement.wallonie.be/eew2000
· Website of the administration - Nature and Forests Division. http://mrw.wallonie.be/dgrne/frames/dnf/afrnat.htm

Brussels Capital Region:

· Brussels Institute for the Management of the Environment. http://www.ibgebim.be
· Discover the Sonian Forest. http://www.ibgebim.be/francais/contenu/content.asp?ref=1328 (in French) or http://www.ibgebim.be/nederlands/contenu/content.asp?ref=1544 (in Dutch)
· Information Centre of the Sonian Forest. http://www.vub.ac.be/APNA/ICZO/MW.ENG/Eng.html
· List of nature- and forest-related legislation. http://www.ibgebim.be/francais/contenu/DroitContent.asp?ref=1541 (in French) or http://www.ibgebim.be/nederlands/contenu/DroitContent.asp?ref=1448 (in Dutch)
· Sonian Forest Management Plan: http://www.ibgebim.be/francais/pdf/Espacesverts/Plan_gestionFds_Fr.pdf (in French) or http://www.ibgebim.be/GROENERUIMTEN/bois/download/plan_gestionNL.pdf (in Dutch)
· Participatory platform of the Sonian Forest. http://www.foretdesoignes.net (in French) or http://www.zonienwoud.net (in Dutch)
· State of the Environment 1999. http://www.ibgebim.be/francais/pdf/Donnees/EE_96_99_FR.PDF

Universities :

List of university websites in Belgium. http://belgium.fgov.be/abtb/science/en_60201.htm#acbe (Note from the Webmaster: The link is not functional anymore. For a complete list of Belgian Universities you can also visit the link Universities on our site)

Some university links (not exhaustive):

· Catholic University of Leuven (KULeuven). History and forest biodiversity. Symposium. http://www.agr.kuleuven.ac.be/lbh/lbnl/forestbiodiv/
· Catholic University of Leuven (KULeuven). Sustainable management and biodiversity in Flemish Woods. http://cwisdb.cc.kuleuven.ac.be/research/P/3E98/project3E980392.htm
· Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). Inventaire et diagnostic écologique d'espaces protégés (réserves naturelles, sites de grand intérêt biologique et vieilles forêts feuillues). http://www.ecol.ucl.ac.be/belo/fr/eval1.html
· Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). Modelling of deforestation processes in Central Africa : case study Southern Cameroon. http://www.geo.ucl.ac.be/Recherche/Teledetection/Project3/Intro.html
· Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). Proximate causes and underlying driving forces of tropical deforestation. http://www.geo.ucl.ac.be/LUCC/pdf/02_February_Article_Geist_.pdf
· Catholic University of Louvain (UCL). Selection of sites on forest and the environment. http://www.efor.ucl.ac.be/liens_efor.htm
· Free University of Brussels (ULB). Avenir des Peuples des Forêts Tropicales. http://www.ulb.ac.be/soco/apft/
· Free University of Brussels (ULB). Research projects of the Botany and Phytosociology Laboratory. http://www.ulb.ac.be/sciences/bota/themefr.htm
· Free University of Brussels (VUB). Research on the flora and vegetation of the Sonian Forest. http://www.vub.ac.be/APNA/ICZO/MW.ENG/Research.html
· University of Antwerp (UIA)/Zoo of Antwerp. Project BioBrasil, a Belgian-Brazilian Co-operation on Forest Biodiversity: http://www.uia.ac.be/crc/biobrasil.html (in English) and http://www.uia.ac.be/crc/brazoolia.html (in Dutch, for schools).