What is the Iwokrama International Rainforest Centre for Conservation and Development?
The Iwokrama programme was an outcome of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malaysia in 1989 when the then President of Guyana, Desmond Hoyte, offered some 360,000 hectares of virgin rainforest for a project to develop and demonstrate methods of sustainable tropical rainforest use and of conserving biological diversity. The Commonwealth Secretariat serves on the International Board of Trustees.
