The Flanking Program for Tropical Ecology (Tropenökologisches Begleitprogramm, TÖB) offers a flexible, demand-driven advisory and support service and funds applied ecological research whose results serve to develop innovative instruments for planning and management of development projects. Besides this, TÖB funds environmental education programs of local non-governmental organisations (NGOs) who contribute to mediate and implement environmentally sound landuse and conservation concepts. The programme includes a focus on tropical forestry research.
WWW site offers (in German, Spanish and English) information on the supported projects and downloadable papers produced by them (a sample of titles is given below)