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CIB
Management by Principles
The FSC certificate guarantees environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable forest management based on 10 generic and internationally accepted principles.
CIB’s implementation of the FSC standard included a wide range of activities. One such activity was the undertaking of extensive forest inventories for its 1.3 million ha concession area. These inventories collected, for instance, information on the various tree and animal species found in the forests, their distribution, status of their population etc.
Based on the data collected through research CIB has developed long–term forest management plans to guide the sustainable management of the forests. In the plans high conservation value areas have been identified and subsequently these areas have been conserved. Other set-aside areas include areas for community development and agro–forestry.
CIB has developed techniques to reduce the environmental impact associated with harvesting activities through a detailed Reduced Impact Logging (RIL) program. This program also set environmental safeguards, for instance, CIB’s maximum harvest is restricted to two and a half trees per hectare.