Sandalwood in the Pacific region

The papers reproduced here are edited versions of presentations given at the Symposium on Sandalwood Conservation at the XVII Pacific Science Congress, held in Honolulu, Hawaii, in June 1991. This symposium was a follow-up to a previous symposium on Sandalwood in the Pacific held at the East-West Center, University of Hawaii, April 9-11, 1990. At that time a considerable amount of interest in the conservation of the various species of sandalwood was generated and the 1991 symposium was arranged to give focus to that interest and to gain more information on the conservation status of this important genus.