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Forestry Plantations – What Are They All About?
The argument is simple: we live in a rapidly changing world; one which continues to drain natural resources and relentlessly pushes for infinite wants against limited resources. With such pressures apparent and showing no signs of renouncing, society needs to look at how we can sustain and cultivate, rather than simply take, take, take.
One such area of intense need is the worlds demand for timber. This massively popular yet diminishing resource is one of the worlds most heavily traded commodities. The Global Timber Supply/Demand Balance Report released by Wood Resources International, suggests that on a global scale, supply will move into a deficit situation where annual demand will exceed annual supply in the next two to three decades. With the rapid rate of consumption, sustainability is the key word, but how can we go about achieving this hard-to-reach goal? Well the answer might be embedded within the idea of Forestry Plantations. Broadly speaking, there are two types of forests, natural and plantations, which supply timber to a global audience. Plantations grow “custom-made” timber and generally have a large capacity plus the key ability to free natural forests from intensive exploitation while increasing the efficiency of timber creation in the forest products industry. In some countries where forestry plantations have an established growth and cultivation process, forestry plantations can yield anything up to 14 times more wood per hectare than native forests. There are various reasons behind this however it’s largely due to careful plant selection and breeding, and the use of more intensive management techniques.
So what are the benefits?
Forest ecosystems play an important role in providing many benefits on economic, environmental, social, and cultural levels. Plantations, strategically placed in the landscape, are recognised for their importance of sustainable production and improved soil, water quality and carbon reduction benefits, just to name a few.
In trying to realise the considerable potential of forestry plantations, one of the principal challenges is to first relay the message of how plantations aim to benefit the wider society. Firstly, afforestation, which refers to planting trees on agricultural land, is an activity carried out to help mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases, primarily the release of carbon dioxide into the environment. For example, an average hectare of the Robinia tree species timber can extract up to 15 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it grows to maturity. The fact that the carbon actually stays locked away when the tree is harvested, generates long-term carbon emission savings. As such, planting trees is clearly one of the main ways of controlling climate change. As well as this, plantation forestry helps reduce soil erosion and improve water quality. Leading industry research in the area of forestry has concluded that water flowing out of forest plantations is purer than water flowing into them. Plantations also generally consist of one species which meets the needs of a specific market, helping to produce uniform products which yield a high end-value. Further, planting ensures maximising the potential of any site while the high volumes per hectare have the potential to reduce harvesting costs. However, there are always two sides to every story and while the above holds true, there is an argument to suggest intensively managed forests can have dis-benefits, which include loss of natural forest habitat and biodiversity. However it’s clear to see that any plantation which conducts itself in the right manor, following forestry guidelines and deploying an adequate planting strategy, will only stand to benefit while minimising any potential risks.
How do you add value?
Forestry certification, such as that offered by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), provides a quality benchmark, almost guaranteeing an optimum level of financial return for any plantation investment. Independent certification clearly adds credibility and has an important role to play in ensuring the cultivation benefits of plantations are met. Investing in a plantation of almost any size requires high financial input and as such, it’s important to have confidence in the fact that your investment will pay dividends when it reaches the end of its tenure. Certification can give you the added comfort that ensures your forestry investment will provide not only sustainable, but also financial satisfaction.
Next Steps
What’s clear is that sustainability of forestry plantations will be enhanced, and the benefits of investments most certainly realised, where plantations stick to doing what they do best and that is offer an opportunity to meet the increasing global wood demand while going some way to control the ecological crisis we are sure to face.
The numbers, both financial and environmental, seem to add up and with the obvious direction in which we’re headed, any carefully considered investment is arguably going to leave you in a win-win situation.
To find out more about investment in forestry plantations speak to a Foreco consultant on 020 71418 7100. You could also take advantage of the chat feature on our website www.forecogrowth.com.
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The argument is simple: we live in a rapidly changing world; one which continues to drain natural resources and relentlessly pushes for infinite wants against limited resources. With such pressures apparent and showing no signs of renouncing, society needs to look at how we can sustain and cultivate, rather than simply take, take, take.
One such area of intense need is the worlds demand for timber. This massively popular yet diminishing resource is one of the worlds most heavily traded commodities. The Global Timber Supply/Demand Balance Report released by Wood Resources International, suggests that on a global scale, supply will move into a deficit situation where annual demand will exceed annual supply in the next two to three decades. With the rapid rate of consumption, sustainability is the key word, but how can we go about achieving this hard-to-reach goal? Well the answer might be embedded within the idea of Forestry Plantations. Broadly speaking, there are two types of forests, natural and plantations, which supply timber to a global audience. Plantations grow “custom-made” timber and generally have a large capacity plus the key ability to free natural forests from intensive exploitation while increasing the efficiency of timber creation in the forest products industry. In some countries where forestry plantations have an established growth and cultivation process, forestry plantations can yield anything up to 14 times more wood per hectare than native forests. There are various reasons behind this however it’s largely due to careful plant selection and breeding, and the use of more intensive management techniques.
So what are the benefits?
Forest ecosystems play an important role in providing many benefits on economic, environmental, social, and cultural levels. Plantations, strategically placed in the landscape, are recognised for their importance of sustainable production and improved soil, water quality and carbon reduction benefits, just to name a few.
In trying to realise the considerable potential of forestry plantations, one of the principal challenges is to first relay the message of how plantations aim to benefit the wider society. Firstly, afforestation, which refers to planting trees on agricultural land, is an activity carried out to help mitigate emissions of greenhouse gases, primarily the release of carbon dioxide into the environment. For example, an average hectare of the Robinia tree species timber can extract up to 15 tonnes of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere as it grows to maturity. The fact that the carbon actually stays locked away when the tree is harvested, generates long-term carbon emission savings. As such, planting trees is clearly one of the main ways of controlling climate change. As well as this, plantation forestry helps reduce soil erosion and improve water quality. Leading industry research in the area of forestry has concluded that water flowing out of forest plantations is purer than water flowing into them. Plantations also generally consist of one species which meets the needs of a specific market, helping to produce uniform products which yield a high end-value. Further, planting ensures maximising the potential of any site while the high volumes per hectare have the potential to reduce harvesting costs. However, there are always two sides to every story and while the above holds true, there is an argument to suggest intensively managed forests can have dis-benefits, which include loss of natural forest habitat and biodiversity. However it’s clear to see that any plantation which conducts itself in the right manor, following forestry guidelines and deploying an adequate planting strategy, will only stand to benefit while minimising any potential risks.
How do you add value?
Forestry certification, such as that offered by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), provides a quality benchmark, almost guaranteeing an optimum level of financial return for any plantation investment. Independent certification clearly adds credibility and has an important role to play in ensuring the cultivation benefits of plantations are met. Investing in a plantation of almost any size requires high financial input and as such, it’s important to have confidence in the fact that your investment will pay dividends when it reaches the end of its tenure. Certification can give you the added comfort that ensures your forestry investment will provide not only sustainable, but also financial satisfaction.
Next Steps
What’s clear is that sustainability of forestry plantations will be enhanced, and the benefits of investments most certainly realised, where plantations stick to doing what they do best and that is offer an opportunity to meet the increasing global wood demand while going some way to control the ecological crisis we are sure to face.
Note – We could input a chart of global demand for timber/price of timber etc this indicates the trend.
The numbers, both financial and environmental, seem to add up and with the obvious direction in which we’re headed, any carefully considered investment is arguably going to leave you in a win-win situation.
To find out more about investment in forestry plantations speak to a Foreco consultant on 020 7959 2392. You could also take advantage of the chat feature on our website.
About the Author
Foreco Growth Investments Limited is an investment consultancy specializing in eco projects globally. We are based in the heart of London’s financial district and are led by a senior management team with over 30 years of investment experience.
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1891 Article Coffee Plantation C Arabica Brazil Liberica Species Agriculture – Original Print Article $51.95 This is an original 1891 one-page print article “Coffee and Its Culture” including a halftone illustration of a coffee plantation. For practical purposes, two species only need to be distinguished – C. Arabica and C. Liberica. The Arabica is the well-known coffee shrub which is an object of culture on the large scale in Brazil, Central and South America, and the West Indies, Java, Ceylon, India, A… |
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