Developing and testing a forest management model to guide research and policy direction for effective forestry decision making

This project focuses on addressing the gaps in the limited data available to guide decisions for forest communities in the area of plant invasive species. The project anticipates to achieve two short-term outcomes, these include the development and publication of localised plant invasive species models for research and policy advice for Tonga and Fiji. The FIT support will implement the relevant scoping work, data collection and the building of a Localised Plant Invasive species models for research and policy advice for Tonga and Fiji. This is important considering the lack of data available on forestry and in particular forest invasive species in the communities.