Dear all in IUFRO Division 9, I came across an interesting report produced under the Swiss-Ukrainian Forest Development Project, and available at the following link: http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/files/How%20communities%20manage%2… I am yet to go through the report, but a glance through it prompted me to focus on the definition of the term 'Community Forestry'. I appreciate the author(s) of the report to attempt at this definition that has in fact inspired me to provide a better(more intimate, concrete, and at the same time relatively all embracing) one. I have started working on the same, and shall let you know once it is done. I have copied this mail to the English- and Ukranian editors of the said report, Jane Carter and Nataliya Voloshyna. Such a report is very much welcome. Sorry for cross posting, if any. Bikash Rath Coordinator IUFRO Working Party on Community Forestry http://www.rcdcindia.org/working-party.htm