What Forestry Certification means to Australia's Timber Supply Chain

Forestry Certification demonstrates the implementation of sustainable forest management practices, ensuring forests and plantations used for harvesting timber are healthy, renewable, and well managed. This sustainable forest management is achieved by monitoring the forest, tracing and labelling timber, wood and pulp products and non-timber forest products. The quality of forest management is judged against a series of agreed national standards.

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In Australia, there are approximately 28 million hectares of forest certified. There are two major global forest certification bodies; the Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), where 26.7 million hectares are under the Responsible Wood Certification Scheme and 1.2 million hectares are under the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). Both the PEFC and FSC have internationally recognised forest certification networks that provide recognition of regional and national standards that meet their criteria for sustainable forest management.

Wood and wood-based products sourced from certified forests can also be tracked (via labelling) through the supply chain using chain-of-custody certification provided by both forest certification schemes. This chain-of-custody certification provides consumers with an assurance that the wood product they are purchasing comes from a sustainably managed and certified forest.

This webinar explains each forestry management scheme, with an emphasis on what it means to design professionals and end-users.

Two presenters Mark Leech from Brueckner Leech Consulting and Simon Angove from Timberlink will take us through the journey of forestry certification to the marketplace.