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Support towards the first FSC certification in the Congo
Basin
Conservation of biodiversity in lumber concession areas
About seven per cent of the two-million-square-kilometre
forest area in the Congo Basin is designated as a protected area. However,
successful protection of biodiversity requires that nature protection
measures are also applied outside protected areas.
As part of this ITTO project, the Wildlife Conservation
Society, the firm Congolaise Industrielle des Bois (CIB) and
the government of the Republic of the Congo are working together to improve
forest management in order to protect wildlife. A series of measures were
taken to reduce the pressure on endangered wildlife in the timber concession
areas that border the Nouabalé-Ndoki National Park situated in
the north of the country. The acquired experiences flow back into the
work in other concession areas and form the basis for drafting national
wildlife protection provisions. The project contributed to the first certification
in May 2006 of a CIB concession in accordance with the provisions of the
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The FSC certificate is awarded for socially
beneficial and environmentally appropriate forest management. This first
FSC certification in the Congo Basin is a major step towards the sustainable
management of African tropical forests.
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Who are the actors?
Why tropical forests?
Why incentives instead of bans?
What commitment?
Why ITTO?
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