We can continue to use our forests to supply our needs for some time before we reach another limit, that is, the actual
shortage of forest products globally.
He is also a Director and Past Chairman
of the Forest Products Association of Canada and a Director of the Council of Forest Industries, Alberta Forest Products Association and the BC Lumber Trade Council.
Like most forest - dependent groups, these communities have a tremendous knowledge of biodiversity, and their
harvesting of forest products for consumption and / or trade generates critical household income and provides them with an opportunity for sustainable economic growth.
This exciting, long - term, multi-faceted plan builds on another successful IDB - supported project that the Rainforest Alliance executed in Honduras from 2005 to 2010, which concluded with 129,715 hectares (320,396 acres) of land either Forest Stewardship Council and Rainforest Alliance Certified or in the process of achieving certification, and with US $ 1 million in
sales of forest products achieved.
Local people could continue to subsist from forest areas (possibly non-market timber harvesting, hunting, and
collection of forest products like rattan, fruit, and nuts) without degrading the carbon value of the land.
This is the dream of Dr. Menandro N. Acda from the
Dept. of Forest Products and Paper Science, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of the Philippines Los Banos.
A massive reforestation campaign in China meant the country added an average of 1.8 million hectares each year during this period, largely because bans on deforestation near the end of the decade heightened the country's reliance on plantations and
imports of forest products from other nations.
My first job was in the analytical
lab of a forest products company, where I tested soil and water for the presence of environmental contaminants using gas chromatography methods.
One of Gross - Camp's colleagues had calculated that the forest around Nyungwe provides about $ 25
worth of forest products to every household each year.
As a result, local activities such as
extraction of forest products and slash - and - burn agriculture — a traditional technique that provides poor tropical soils with a burst of fertility needed to grow small - scale crops that local communities depend on — were limited.
2) GFTN states that its 288 members trade 252 million cubic metres of wood products, representing around 16 per cent of the globally traded
volume of forest products with combined annual sales of US$ 68 billion.
Wood pellets are originally produced from wood waste (such as sawdust and shavings), rather than whole logs, and thus can be viewed as an integrated
part of forest product manufacturing.
Finally, Congress and the administration can commit to full funding and enforcement of the Lacey Act, which prohibits
importation of forest products and other goods from illegal logging or forest clearing, and is strongly supported by both the forest products industry and environmentalists.
I suggest that it would be better to distinguish between different
kinds of forest products, at least from the CO2 sequestering point of view.
Reaching a major compromise, the agreement essentially ends a long battle between several environmental groups and the companies signing on, all
members of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC).
Further, because REDD is compatible with sustainable
harvesting of forest products, low - impact ecotourism, and other environmental services payments, it could become an integral part of rural development schemes.
Sales of forest products are expected to increase by $ 800,000, and sales of coffee, cocoa, and rambutan are expected to increase by $ 1.5 million.
The area's tribal inhabitants depend on agriculture, hunting and
collection of forest products for their livelihoods but additional sources of income are badly needed to alleviate their poverty.
This is the dream of Dr. Menandro N. Acda from the
Dept. of Forest Products and Paper Science, College of Forestry and Natural Resources, University of
Plus, Biodiversity & Natural Capital Depletion... And that doesn't even take into account the loss in biodiversity, natural capital, unpaid ecosystem services, and potential lost income from sustainable
use of forest products or eco-tourism.
The unsustainability of the present rate of use
of forest products is not important.
In the meantime, EPA appears primed to follow through with
some of the forest product industry's recommendations.
A deforestation event today leads to a time - delayed future release of carbon, from the eventual decay
either of forest products or of slash left at the site [2].