Ecobreves – BRAZIL: Forestry Certification On the Rise

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SAO PAULO, Apr 8 2006 (IPS) - The proportion of environmentally certified forests in Brazil nearly doubled in the past two years, while worldwide it increased 70.25 percent, according to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) The global status of sustainably grown forest products will be studied during the 2nd Certified Brazil Fair, to be held in Sao Paulo Apr. 18-20.

The event will include buyers and producers of raw materials and products from the forests — representatives from sawmills, paper and pulp industries, artisans and community growers — all certified by the FSC.

“The principal novelty of this edition of the fair is the great variety of certified products and companies. It will be seen that many productive networks in the forestry sector are wholly certified, linking the forests with the final consumer,” Luis Fernando Guedes Pinto, director of Imaflora, the institute overseeing the initiative, told Tierramérica.