Gabon - Sustainable forest management

Each year, 13 million hectares of forest are destroyed across the planet. Although conserving this exceptional biodiversity is now an urgent priority, exploiting wood resources is also vitally important for many local populations whose livelihood depends on the forest. Sustainable management of these spaces by combining protection and exploitation seems to offer the best solution. With 85% of its territory covered by forests, Gabon adopted a new forestry code in 2001. The Agence Française de Développement (AFD) supports the large-scale concessions that are sustainably managing and exploiting the forest. This approach has also been extended to the country's small-scale operators.

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News & Politics

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• Gabon
• forest
• afd
• biodiversity
• development
• agence française développement

[CustomCarpentryUK]

We should all be following this caring sustainable example of responsible forestry.

But I ask, does it fit in a capitalist system which does not see a company as successful if they do not produce more and more product and profit every year?

What I am saying is that with this system, we can't take more out every year or it won't regrow sustainably, so it must be managed by a company or organisation that does not have to rely on ever growing profits.

Tristan Titeux

[ForestryFirst]

Very good. It is encouraging to see that the worlds forests are being managed by professionals who understand what it means to promote healthy forests, biodiversity preservation of the ecosystem.