Forests

2011International year of

Forests

Forests cover 31% of the total land area

Primary forests account for 36% of forest area

The livelihoods of over 1.6 billion people depend on

forests

Forests are home to 300 million of people around the

world

Forests are home to 80% of our terrestrial biodiversity

Trade in forest products was estimated at $327 billion in

2004

30% of forests are used for production of wood and non-

wood products

Illegal deforestation threatens the existence of

forests and accelerates the climate change

Bamboo shows up as a natural and sustainable

alternative to wood

According to WWF/Adena:

An Oak cannot be cut in less

than 7 yearsAn Ipe, not less than 100

yearsBamboo can be logged

every 6 years

325.000 football fields disappear each year due to

illegal logging

Giant moso

Main characteristics:

Quick growing

Phyllostachys pubescens

It does not need replantation

A huge extension - 6 to 9 million hectares

Main locations:

Eastern Chinese and Australian coasts

Bamboo is not a treeBamboo is a plant, with similar

characteristics to timberGiant moso can grow up to 30-50

cm a dayOn its adulthood, it can attain 15-30

metres highAnd a circumference of 35 cm

It attains its maturity at 6 years and

then stops growing

There are more than 1.500 bamboo species

Giant moso is located only in

tropical areas The biggest reserve of giant bamboo

is located in ChinaThe Phyllostachys pubescens is

applied, since thousands of years

ago, to multiple uses, from construction to food

Each year, 1/3 of the bamboo plantations can

be sustainably logged

Bamboo deforestation is almost impossible

=Natural

Reforestation

The panda bear lives on Central China

It looks for low bamboos, which have accessible leafs

Phyllostachys pubescens does not have leafs on its first 5 metres

So it does not represent a feed source for the Panda bear

Moso loggins is Panda bear friendly

Using bamboo is a mitigation solutionfighting against

illegal logging of trees

as well as against CO2 emissions increase

deforestationand

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