Blogposts tagged 'Certification Schemes'

Why is the world's largest forest certification scheme still standing by APP?

Posted by andy.t - 29 July 2011 at 2:29pm - 9 Comments

A dead Sumatran tiger, found trapped on an APP concession, is carried away by fo

The dead tiger, found trapped on an APP concession earlier this month, is carried away

Earlier this week, we released some sad, shocking footage showing the slow and gruesome death of a Sumatran tiger that became trapped within an Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) concession in Sumatra's Riau province. The video footage also revealed that in the same APP area, recent forest clearance had taken place in an area identified as tiger habitat.

Article tagged as: APP, certification schemes, deforestation, greenwash, indonesia, PEFC, Sumatran Tigers, tigers

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Holding the Line with FSC

Publication date: 3 November, 2008

Over the past 12 years, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has created a leading global system for credible certification of environmentally and socially responsible managed forests and it has been innovative and adaptive in meting the challenges to transform forest stewardship worldwide. Its success and the reality of rapid growth and demand have lead FSC to face a number of challenges.

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Holding the Line with FSC

Article tagged as: certification schemes, forests, FSC, sustainable

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UK government makes 'clear-cut' decision on timber

Posted by admin - 29 November 2005 at 8:00am - 0 Comments

In July 2000 the UK government introduced a policy requiring all of its departments and agencies to 'actively seek' to buy timber from legal and sustainable sources. Given that central government procurement accounts for approximately 15 per cent of timber used in the UK (and that the broader public sector may account for as much as 40 per cent), this was seen as a positive move to push the wider UK timber market towards environmentally and socially responsible sources.