Forests

Organizations

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)
http://www.fscglobal.net/
International, independent organization that sets certification standards for environmentally and socially responsible forest management.

Forest Trends
http://www.forest-trends.org/
Building bridges to sustainable forestry. The groups seeks to maintain and restore forest ecosystems by promoting incentives that diversify trade in the forest sector, moving beyond exclusive focus on lumber and fiber to a broader range of products and services.

Global Forest and Trade Network
http://gftn.panda.org/
400 companies are part of this World Wildlife Fund (WWF) co-ordinated network, committed to responsible forest management and trade. They represent a wide range of actors including forest owners, timber processors, construction companies, retailers, investment agencies and local authorities. Members vary from small family-owned businesses to world scale leading companies such as IKEA and the Home Depot. By facilitating trade links between companies committed to achieving and supporting responsible forestry, the GFTN creates market conditions that help conserve the worlds forests while providing economic and social benefits for the businesses and people that depend on them.

Markets Initiatives
http://www.marketsinitiative.org/
Works directly with Canadian book, newspaper and magazines industries to help them stop using ancient forests for paper.

Silva Forest Foundation
http://www.silvafor.org
Ecologically responsible forestry. Pubs, manuals, maps.

The Forest Dialogue
http://research.yale.edu/gisf/tfd/
International coalition of private landowners, forest products companies, conservationists, retailers, foreign assistance organizations, unions, and academia committed to the conservation and sustainable use of forests.

World Wildlife Fund Forests for Life Programme
http://www.panda.org/forests4life
WWF works on forest conservation through a multiplicity of approaches and strategies which are pursued together with regional and global partners: Credible Forest Certification, High Conservation Value Forests, combating illegal logging and forest crime, preventing forest fires, restoring damaged and degraded forests and forest protection. Position papers on global forest issues.

Database(s)

Forest Certification Resource Center
http://www.metafore.org/index.php?p=Forest_Certification_Resource_Center&s=147
Database of forests and forest products that have earned the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) label.

Forests.org
http://forests.org
Portal for thousands of articles related to forest conservation.

Global Forest & Trade Network
http://www.panda.org/forestandtrade
List of FSC-certified producers and wholesalers of office and publication paper as well as printers in Europe.