. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia and the Pacific. A Future for Tropical Forests management are receiving more funding and employing better qualified staff. Even more significantly, in many countries a new generation of educated concerned citizens has emerged, constituting a powerful force for the support of protected areas. Conservation organisations are forming and the news media of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand are quick to seize upon abuses of national park and wildlife conservation laws. The battle to allocate 10 per cent of land area to nature
. The Conservation Atlas of Tropical Forests: Asia and the Pacific. A Future for Tropical Forests management are receiving more funding and employing better qualified staff. Even more significantly, in many countries a new generation of educated concerned citizens has emerged, constituting a powerful force for the support of protected areas. Conservation organisations are forming and the news media of India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand are quick to seize upon abuses of national park and wildlife conservation laws. The battle to allocate 10 per cent of land area to nature conserva- tion is eminently winnable. The completion and consolidation of these protected area systems must be the first priority of the conser- vation community. Protection Forests The security of forests officially allocated to environmental protec- tion varies greatly from country to country. In a few localities, strict measures are applied to protect the catchments of irrigation and hydro-power schemes. In these situations, protection forests are as secure as national parks. But this is the exception rather than the rule. In most countries, protection forests suffer from benign neg- lect. They are delimited on maps, but few resources are available to maintain them. Vast areas of protection forest in India, Indonesia, Laos, Thailand, and elsewhere, have already been seriously de- graded by shifting agriculture and fire. In most cases, it would be better if those protection forests which have features of special biological value were reallocated to park or reserve status. Those which do not should be reallocated to some form of production. In steeply sloping, highly erodible areas this should not be timber production. There is, however, a wealth of non- wood products which can be obtained from forests without detriment to their environmental protection role. Management systems must be developed whereby the communities living in or around forests can derive more benefits from
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