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"Once you have some promising
way to use the forest,
it's very important to spread that
far and wide so people
understand here is
something that works,
and here is something that
works economically."
Dr. Thomas Lovejoy
Smithsonian Institution.
-- Low-Impact Logging (LIL) Models --
TFF's Sustainable Forest Management Project brings together conservation and industry leaders in an effort to improve natural forest management in the Brazilian Amazon by promoting the use of low-impact logging (LIL) practices.
The Amazon, which contains about 1/3 of the world's tropical forests, actually consists of many different types of forests. The new TFF program, initiated in September 1994, will demonstrate to producers the tangible economic and ecological benefits of LIL in the five principal forestry regions over the next 3-5 years.
Since the project is designed to ensure its forest management principles and techniques can be applied to different regions, a number of other countries interested in protecting their forests will closely monitor the results.
Inappropriate logging and road building techniques continue to cause forest degradation and loss. Although there have been many forest management experiments in the Amazon, they primarily have been research-driven activities and have not been applied in the field to any significant extent by industry.
For further information please contact Keister Evans, Executive Director at tff@igc.org.