1. Develop a sustainable management plan that addresses possible threats to the ecosystem of cedar forests and means of removal of these threats. The management plan will include the following secondary objectives:
i) Understand the causes of Cephalcia outbreak in Tannourine and assess the possible threats of similar outbreaks in cedar forests in the Mediterranean region.
ii) Develop a pest management plan applied to the Tannourine forest and adapt this plan to other cedar forests in the region through dissemination of knowledge and best practice.
2. Increased institutional and community knowledge exchange, networking, education and capacity building for the management of cedar forests.