OPERATIONS
SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY MANAGEMENT
Sustainable management is a type of forestry activity designed to foster the harvest of trees using minimal impact environmental techniques. It emphasizes standing forests, because their existence is what guarantees the economic survival of forestry activities. These forests also make it possible for forest peoples to live off of the resources they provide, avoiding their being cut down to give way to other productive activities. As a result, standing forests contribute to forestry preservation at the same time that they represent an economic value.
Sustainable management presupposes the use of technology and requires deep understanding of the different forest species and their potential to satisfy a wide variety of human needs. It is of fundamental importance to dominate forestry inventory and census techniques, geo-processing and soil use in order to decide which areas can be managed and which should be permanently preserved.
Specific knowledge in road planning also is necessary, in order to build roads with the lowest possible impact. Likewise, understanding of tree harvesting and removal from the forests also is of fundamental importance to causing the lowest destruction possible. And it is necessary to guarantee traceability at each stage, allowing international organizations and auditors to evaluate if the forestry activity was effectively carried out with a maximum awareness about environmental preservation.
This information is systematically documented here and made available by AMATA, making it possible for all stakeholders to understand how the company operates with respect to forestry management.
Operations SFM for Native Forests (PDF - 6Mb)
