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Its production helps forest communities and is an alternative to
ancient forest logging.
Beautiful ecotimber is available to buy in Australia.
Ecotimber is produced in Solomon Islands, where Greenpeace runs successful ecoforestry programs with landowners and other environmental groups. We are working on a similar program in Western Province, Papua New Guinea.
Eco-timber is milled from hardwood trees, including: Pacific mahogany/koilo (Calophyllum spp.), dillenia (Dillenia spp.), vitex (Vitex cofassus) and taun (Pometia pinnata). It can be used for joinery, floorboards, bench tops, decking, panelling and furniture.
Ecoforestry means local communities can earn money by harvesting timber and other products from the forest in a way that cares for the forest and the future. Ecoforestry is an answer to rampant illegal and destructive logging. It is a way for forest communities to look after their forest, lands, rivers and reefs for the benefit of future generations.
Eco-forestry is built on three key foundations:
Customary landowners work together to manage their forest, using low impact techniques to mill trees or harvest forest products. They ensure that, as a tree falls, it does minimal damage to the remainder of the forest. They carry the timber out of the forest along narrow bush tracks or float them down rivers. Monitoring ensures the forest regenerates and is maintained.
The profits from ecoforestry are four to 10 times more than logging and are shared in the community. The money made from cutting just one tree can pay school fees for one child for a year. Greenpeace helps market the high quality ecotimber from Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea to international markets, including Australia.
Beautiful ecotimber is available to buy in Australia.
Ecotimber is produced in Solomon Islands, where Greenpeace runs successful ecoforestry programs with landowners and other environmental groups. We are working on a similar program in Western Province, Papua New Guinea.
Eco-timber is milled from hardwood trees, including: Pacific mahogany/koilo (Calophyllum spp.), dillenia (Dillenia spp.), vitex (Vitex cofassus) and taun (Pometia pinnata). It can be used for joinery, floorboards, bench tops, decking, panelling and furniture.
What is eco-forestry?
Ecoforestry means local communities can earn money by harvesting timber and other products from the forest in a way that cares for the forest and the future. Ecoforestry is an answer to rampant illegal and destructive logging. It is a way for forest communities to look after their forest, lands, rivers and reefs for the benefit of future generations.
How does eco-forestry work?
Eco-forestry is built on three key foundations:
- community organisation,
- clear and undisputed land rights,
- a participatory land use plan.
Customary landowners work together to manage their forest, using low impact techniques to mill trees or harvest forest products. They ensure that, as a tree falls, it does minimal damage to the remainder of the forest. They carry the timber out of the forest along narrow bush tracks or float them down rivers. Monitoring ensures the forest regenerates and is maintained.
The profits from ecoforestry are four to 10 times more than logging and are shared in the community. The money made from cutting just one tree can pay school fees for one child for a year. Greenpeace helps market the high quality ecotimber from Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea to international markets, including Australia.
