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damage, but is also linked to schemes to decoy timber harvested in areas not open to logging (see chapter 3). “In the states of Pará and Mato Grosso, third parties lease 500 to 800 hectares parcels for easy profits, ignoring the need for forest regeneration and long term production,” points out Lentini. In the municipality of Paragominas, in the northeast portion of the state of Pará, the IFT compares areas that employ conventional logging techniques to other of similar size that use forest ma- In most of the area nagement. At the former the damage is logged in the Amazon, exposed: access roads erode the soil and production involves damage the vegetation along the strea- no efforts to minimize ms and on 40 degrees or larger slopes, adverse effects areas where conservation is mandatory. Logging opens clearings that increase the exposure of the forest to sunlight, which drives off the fauna and prevents shadow-dependent plant species from growing. Such indiscriminate logging also increases wood waste. The forest is biologically impoverished and commercially devalued. “While careless logging destroyed 10% of the conventional management pilot area, in the forest management area the collective impacts of clearing by tractors, roads and other activities was halved,” says IFT member Marley Nogueira. He is proud to demonstrate how the “intelligent” method to cut trees diminishes the environmental damage and increases logging productivity. “We harvest 20% fewer trees but have an overall yield that is comparable to the areas of predatory management,” he says. He assures that forest management optimizes forest production. “With conventional management, half of the trees that should have been left for future logging were already felled, making it impossible to reuse the area”. The destructive logic that turns the Amazon forest into pasture involves a series of steps. The first one is to harvest the best species, such as ipê (mostly 45
46 CHAngIng CouRSE His business card does not bear his name, only a company address, telephone number and email, the FSC tree logo in the corner. The focus of attention is a sentence in Portuguese and English: “Respect for nature is our raw material.” Jandir Santim, the owner of Laminados Triunfo, a plywood manufacturer in Acre, has placed all of his bets on the potential of the logging industry for change. Today he is one of the leaders in legal and sustainable timber production in the Amazon. Santim owns São Jorge I Farm, in the municipality of Sena Madureira. Through certified forest management, he harvests timber from his land for processing at the Industrial Complex in Rio Branco. He was awarded public concession of the Antimary State Forest and operating rights, in association with other businesses, of a state-built flooring manufacturer in Xapuri. His business’ consumption of timber increased from 50 thousand to 130 thousand from 2009 to 2010 and approximately 80% of production is exported, and now the waste from his factories is converted into biomass fuel for electricity generation. Working within the law has made Santim proud of being a logger. He admits he made mistakes in the past – his family, with a long logging history, used to cut araucarias (Araucaria angustifolia) in the Southern region of Brazil. once those araucaria stocks were exhausted, he moved to Campo grande, in the state of Mato grosso, to open a plywood manufacturer that used timber of uncontrolled origin. “I tried to have a sustainable management plan at that time, but in face of the obstacles imposed by the environmental authorities I gave up”. The solution he found was to migrate to the state of Acre where the state government offers incentives to those who adopt sustainable production methods. After receiving social and environmental certification, Santim was able to win new foreign contracts, forge new partnerships and accumulate working capital to increase log stocks. “It is a cultural change to start harvesting from the forest without endangering the future,” he points out. now he is preparing his son Jandir Júnior to take over a business that draws benefits from a standing forest.
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