会议时间：3月21-22日

Abstract

It is widely accepted that forest resources and associated lands should be managed to meet the social, economic, and ecological needs of present and future generations. Furthermore, growing public awareness of forest destruction and degradation has led consumers to demand that their purchases of wood and other forest products will not contribute to this destruction but rather help to secure forest resources for the future. 

In response to these demands, Bureau Veritas implemented a project, aiming at evaluating IKEA’s risk assessment report for seven counties in Fujian Province which represent major raw material sourcing areas, by evaluating the following categories: illegally harvested wood(C1), wood harvested in violation of traditional and civil rights(C2), wood harvested in forests where high conservation values are threatened by management activities(C3), wood harvested in forests being converted to plantations or non-forest use(C4), wood from forests in which genetically modified trees are planted(C5). 

The evaluation was based on combined document review, multi-stakeholder consultation and field investigations by sampling at least one forest management enterprise and one timber processor in each county. During the period of this project, Bureau Veritas lead assessor found that risks related to C3 and C4 were specified in Shaxian and Pinghe Counties, while other three indicators were low. 

In Taining and Jiangle Counties, risks related to C2, C3 and C4 were specified, while other two indicators were low. In Nanjing and Nan’an Counties, risks related to C3 were specified, while other four indicators were low. 

In Xianyou County, risk related to C3 was specified, C4 unspecified, and other three indicator low. It shows that we should pay more attention to public benefit forests management and natural forest loss and conversion to non-forest land in Fujian. 

We recommend that the definitions for natural forests and plantations need to be cleared in the local context, which is critical for evaluating local practices relating to public benefit forest and HCVFs protection. And in some cases of converting low- to medium-yield forests into high-yield forests, forest land would not be “mis-identified” as low-yield forests and converted into non-forest use (e.g., infrastructure or tourism development) or plantations through legal procedure.

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