An ALLIANCE culture to safeguard Africa's forests
INTERHOLCO invites you to discover "SUSTAINABLE HARDWOOD, MADE IN AFRICA" and the solutions it offers for meeting the major challenges facing the planet. A forest is so much more than just its trees. She is the nurturing mother and source of healing for the local communities and indigenous peoples who have interacted with her over the course of thousands of years. She is the land where their identities, relationships, traditions and cultures come to life; the sacred being animated by their hopes for the future. She is home to thousands of species, from fungi to insects, from birds to gorillas. She regulates the water cycle and the formation of the rainfall that is so critical to the balance of the climate and the survival of the Earth. She offers the world's population a revolutionary material: wood. Known and used since antiquity, it is the only building material that is healthy, natural, sustainable, traceable, recyclable, renewable and carbon positive. See you on our web site: www.interholco.com
INTERHOLCO invites you to discover "SUSTAINABLE HARDWOOD, MADE IN AFRICA" and the solutions it offers for meeting the major challenges facing the planet.
A forest is so much more than just its trees. She is the nurturing mother and source of healing for the local communities and indigenous peoples who have interacted with her over the course of thousands of years. She is the land where their identities, relationships, traditions and cultures come to life; the sacred being animated by their hopes for the future. She is home to thousands of species, from fungi to insects, from birds to gorillas. She regulates the water cycle and the formation of the rainfall that is so critical to the balance of the climate and the survival of the Earth. She offers the world's population a revolutionary material: wood. Known and used since antiquity, it is the only building material that is healthy, natural, sustainable, traceable, recyclable, renewable and carbon positive.
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Solution<br />
The forest is protected not only in<br />
protection zones or those with high<br />
conservation value, but also in harvesting<br />
areas where 0.5<br />
<strong>to</strong> 1 tree per hectare is harvested on the<br />
equivalent of<br />
2 football fields, once every 30 years.<br />
Regulated forestry in tropical<br />
<strong>forests</strong> is not the same as<br />
deforestation. On the contrary, in<br />
high-forest-cover countries the use of<br />
tropical timber can be an important,<br />
alternative source of income <strong>to</strong> other<br />
land uses that compete directly<br />
with the forest, such as large-scale<br />
cultivation of soy or palm oil. 70<br />
Fritz KLEINSCHROTH<br />
ETH, Zurich<br />
The Republic of the Congo<br />
has a larger expanse of<br />
natural forest than that of<br />
France and the United Kingdom<br />
combined. According <strong>to</strong> the<br />
WRI's interactive software,<br />
Global Forest Watch, in 2018 France lost 1.4 times<br />
more forest than RoC, while the United Kingdom<br />
lost 2.9 times more. In 2015, the United States lost<br />
798,000 ha of forest due <strong>to</strong> fires, which was 10<br />
times more than RoC.<br />
In 2018, Global Forest Watch observed that the<br />
Sangha region - where FSC © certified production<br />
<strong>forests</strong> including the Ngombé FMU are located -<br />
had nearly 100% tree cover compared with the<br />
national average of 64%.<br />
UNITED STATES<br />
310M ha of forest<br />
33.8 % of its <strong>to</strong>tal<br />
land area<br />
In 2018,<br />
the USA lost<br />
1.6M ha of forest cover<br />
= 0.51%<br />
= 1.8 times more than RoC<br />
BRAZIL<br />
493M ha of natural<br />
forest<br />
59 % of its <strong>to</strong>tal<br />
land area<br />
In 2018,<br />
Brazil lost<br />
2.95M ha of forest cover<br />
= 0.59%<br />
= 2.1 times more than RoC<br />
UNITED KINGDOM<br />
3.14M ha of forest<br />
13 % of its <strong>to</strong>tal<br />
land area<br />
In 2017,<br />
United Kingdom lost<br />
26,300 ha of forest cover<br />
= 0.83%<br />
= 2.9 times more than RoC<br />
FRANCE<br />
16.9M ha of forest<br />
31 % of its <strong>to</strong>tal<br />
land area<br />
In 2018,<br />
France lost<br />
69,200 ha of forest cover<br />
= 0.41%<br />
= 1.4 times more than RoC<br />
GERMANY<br />
11.4M ha of forest<br />
32.8 % of its <strong>to</strong>tal<br />
land area<br />
In 2018,<br />
Germany lost<br />
52,200 ha of forest cover<br />
= 0.45<br />
= 1.6 times more than RoC<br />
REPUBLIC<br />
OF THE CONGO<br />
22.3M ha of natural<br />
forest<br />
65.4 % of its <strong>to</strong>tal<br />
land area<br />
In 2018,<br />
RoC lost<br />
62,700 ha of forest<br />
cover<br />
= 0.28%<br />
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https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2019/06/blog-roads-rainforest-congo-kleinschroth.html#comment<br />
Sources: FAO, FRA 2005 and Global Forest Watch / WRI*<br />
* GFW data do not take in<strong>to</strong> account tree cover gain<br />
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