IVORY COAST: INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS DISCUSS PROTECTION METHODS FOR TROPICAL FORESTS.

Record ID: 182890

  • Title: IVORY COAST: INTERNATIONAL EXPERTS DISCUSS PROTECTION METHODS FOR TROPICAL FORESTS.
  • Date: 21st February 1975
  • Summary: 1. LV PAN DOWN forest 0.15 2. CU Sign "Experimental Plantation" 0.17 3. LV & CU Delegates gathered around officials demonstrating process with felled tree (2 shots) 0.35 4. CU PAN FROM delegates watching TO official working in bucket 0.43 5. CU Long as official turns valve (2 shots) 0.48 6. CU ZOOM OUT liquid dripping from log PAN TO apparatus at far end 0.56 7. LV Officials and photographers watching demonstration 1.04 Initials OS Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th March 1975 12:00
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  • Location: YAPO EXPERIMENTAL FOREST, NEAR ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST
  • Country: Ivory Coast
  • Reuters ID: LVACHPHE9JIZJBLBATFM7111UBLU
  • Story Text: A group of international experts in the protection of tropical forests gathered in Abidjan in the Ivory Coast to meet and lecture to delegates from five african nations this week.

    The experts from the International Union of Forestry Research Institutes spoke to forestry officials from Nigeria, Ghana, Madagascar, Cameroun as well as the Ivory Coast.

    On Wednesday (19 February) the delegates travelled to the Yapo experimental forest, about 80 km (50 miles) north of Abidjan, to watch a demonstration of methods of impregnating wood by replacing the sap.

    Later, they were lectured on the principles involved by experts form the United States, West Germany, France, the United Kingdom Australia, and New Zealand.
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