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from the genus Tabebuia) and jacarandá (from the genus Jacaranda), felling even young specimens. The second step involves mercilessly clotheslining the remaining trees with tractors. Finally, the undergrowth is removed by burning and gives way to pasture. “The illegal logger clears everything because he does not know what is in the forest,” says Marley. “Forest management can reverse the destructive cycle and contribute to the region’s economy”. The younger generation looks for opportunities. “The world is watching us because of global warming,” says 18 year-old Rodrigo Marinho, a student at the Technical School in Manaus who attended a forest management course offered by the IFT at Cauaxi Farm. He and his friends, 22 year old Williams Costa and 18 year-old Anderson Barbosa peruse a map of the trees to be harvested. After two weeks of on-site activities, the students learned how to identify tree species and also how to legally fell them. “We get a chill when we hear the buzz of the chainsaw, but we know there is a sustainable way to use that chainsaw,” says Rodrigo, hoping it will be easy to get a job in forest management. Sustainable logging creates opportunities Economic activities that support a healthy forest, such as legal logging, are socially and environmentally important for the Amazon. The latest data from Imazon show that the logging industry was responsible for 204 thousand jobs in 2009. Each of those jobs creates other two indirect ones, with positive effects for quality of life, income and thus, the economy as a whole. Legal logging allows for improvement in public services such as public safety, sanitation, health care and education. It also promotes social inclusion. The stream of income generated by legal activities encourages people to keep living in the forest instead of migrating to the fringes of capital cities in the Amazon. Finally, it helps to change the perception that trees are valuable only when cut with broadax and firebrand. In fact, they yield more and for longer when some are spared and others are judiciously selected for harvest. 47
48 Opportunities abound in the carbon markets as well. According to research published by Imazon, forest management cuts greenhouse gas emissions by 36%. This means that, by choosing to use wood from native trees and legal operations, the civil construction industry may contribute to mitigate climate change. Buildings, popular housing, overpasses and tunnels in the urban centers, as in a domino effect, are connected to the forest. Those who choose to use legal timber receive, in the form of reduced environmental impact on the planet as a whole, the benefits of sustainably using natural resources. There is a simple scientific explanation for that. The harvest of timber from mature forests through forest management opens up space for younger trees to develop. To grow, they absorb carbon and release oxygen. Research done in France and published by the National Forum on Forest Activities indicates that one ton of wood contains 1.4 tons of CO2. Down the supply chain, carbon remains locked into the products made with wood from adult trees – if these products are employed in the construction of durable buildings, the efficiency of carbon capture is doubled. Besides being a renewable resource, wood also contributes to thermal conditions in buildings that are conducive to saving energy. Taking these characteristics into account, European countries with international targets to cut carbon emissions have set associated targets to increase the use of wood in civil construction. By giving priority to wooden products with a sustainable origin – instead of substituting wood for alternative materials such as plastic or steel –, consumers help to create economic conditions to suppress predatory activities and encourage legal logging in the forest. Forest management helps the forest to retain carbon and thus creates opportunities in the fight against climate change
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