Certification Benefits

Forest certification has multiple environmental, social and economic benefits. 

Environmentally appropriate forest management ensures that the harvest of timber and non-timber products maintains the forest's biodiversity, productivity, and ecological processes.

Socially beneficial forest management helps both local people and society at large to enjoy long term benefits from the forest and it also provides strong incentives to local communities to sustain the forest resources and adhere to long term management plans.

Economically viable forest management means that forest operations are structured and managed so as to be sufficiently profitable, without generating financial profit at the expense of negative impacts on the forest resource, the ecosystem, or local communities. The tension between the need to generate adequate financial returns and the principles of responsible forest operations can be reduced through efforts to market the full range of forest products and services for their best value