Rain forest

Promote the forest certification

IFIA gave its financial and technical assistance to produce the three volumes of practical solutions for African natural tropical timber forest planning published by ATIBT (Volume 1: Forest Production, Volume II: Social Aspects, Volume III: Faunistic Aspects).

In addition, IFIA is working jointly with the Tropical Forest Foundation and the CDE to train timber fellers and forest operatives in the methods of RIL (reduced impact logging). New training courses are being worked out.

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Through these actions, IFIA aims to engage its members in an approach to sustainable management and forest certification. IFIA’s ambitious objective is to have certified 10 million hectares of tropical forest in the Congo Basin region by 2012. The Congo Basin currently has seven certified forest concessions in Cameroon, in Gabon and in Congo Brazzaville: WIJMA Douala (2 companies - 97 043 ha), CIB/DLH (2 Cies - 748 200 ha), TRC
(1 Cie - 125 490 ha), SEFAC (1 Cie - 314 655 ha), Rougier Gabon (1 Cie - 688 262 ha), Pallisco (1 Cie - 341.708 ha) et CEB/Precious Wood (1 Cie- 616 700 Ha).
Total: 2,93 million hectares certified in the Congo Basin.