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Consumption Regional markets use part of the Amazon processed timber. Most of it is exported or used in urban centers elsewhere in Brazil. Civil construction uses timber in residential and commercial buildings, as well as in public housing, bridges, overpasses, schools, hospitals and other public works. Furniture makers are the second largest user of timber, consuming lumber and its residues, woodblocks, boards, and plywood sheets. Lumberyards Sawmills sell most processed timber to lumberyards, which in turn sell to the market. Secondary processing Lumber is processed with jointers to make laminate flooring, decks, parquet tiles, baseboards, miter joints, panels and other products for furniture making and civil construction. Residues are used to make several products. Companies that do secondary processing use only 15% of the timber processed in the Amazon. Source: Imazon 37
38 abandoned years ago due to administration problems: processing. They plan to start in 2011 with 25% of the timber usually outsourced to sawmills. “We have buyers for all our community production, especially in the United Kingdom,” Aquino says. The communities want to receive certification by the FSC as well as a Fair Trade label, which attests to the product’s origin and ensures the producers get paid 10% more than their conventional competitors. “We prefer to depend on the market rather than on government welfare as is the case with the community use of public forests,” says Aquino, adding that things have improved since Chico Mendes’ time. A new vision for the logging business in the Amazon The model developed by Acre, despite the challenges it still has to face, is seen as a benchmark for Amazon’s native wood. The latest data suggest that operating within the law and according to sustainable practices can generate long lasting commercial gains as well as development with social benefits and no environmental damage. In fact, Acre was the only state in the Legal Amazon region to increase logging activities in 2009. In the Amazon Forest as a whole, the consumption of timber logs was almost halved between 2004 and 2009, as indicated by a study from Imazon. The number of jobs in the industry fell from 344 thousand to 203 thousand. “Production is likely to keep falling in the short term until it reaches a sustainable level at which it is possible to reconcile profits with low environmental impact in order not to exhaust natural stocks,” says Daniel Santos, a coordinator of the study “Amazon Forest Facts 2010”. The survival of the industry, after all, depends on finding that equilibrium. There are pressures from different sources. “The appreciation of the Brazilian currency against the American dollar, its effects on exports, the international crisis that started in 2008, variations in prices for commodities such as soybeans, as well as better enforcement against illegal activities all explain
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