Scott_3.pdf

GreenWood

www.greenwoodglobal.org

Fundación Madera Verde

www.maderaverdehonduras.org.hn

GreenWood in Honduras

>20 Years of Community Forest Management

and Sustainable Forest Enterprise

1) Forest Management

2) Artisanry &

Appropriate Wood

Technology

3) Marketing & Sales

ThreeComponents

Launched in 1993 in Honduras as a

field project to train artisan

woodworkers in support of good

forest management.

In 2004 GW founded Madera Verde,

which became a 100% independent,

Honduran foundation in 2008.

GreenWood & Madera Verde

Areas of Madera Verde/GreenWood Operation

HONDURAS

Río PlátanoBiosphereReserve

NicaraguaEl Salvador

Guatemala

ArizonaEsparta La Ceiba

Trujillo Iriona

San Esteban

High-Value Mahogany Guitar Parts

Cadena Custodia

Digital/GPS Chain of Custody

Alaska Chainsaw Mill: Making the First Cut

Resawing Cants on a Wood-Mizer Sawmill

“Down to theSqueal”

Madera VerdeFacilitatorHonduras

CooperativesProducersHonduras

Clients

Facilitator ”Green” Broker

Managing the Whole Value Chain

Managing Risk . . .

. . . in a High Risk enviroment

Political instabilityand violence

Illegal logging

Drug trafficking

Forest invasions, agriculturalconversion

Natural defects in tree health and timber quality

Tropical climate, poor infrastructure

Illegal gold-mining

Volatile markets and lack of access to

capital

Weak governance, institutional presence

Lack of stable land tenure

Bureaucracyand corruption

Complex regulations:Lacey Act, FLEGT,

CITES

Forest Invasions

Satellite Monitoring of Invasions & Clearings

Quickbird

Terra-i

¡Muchas gracias!

GreenWood

Forest Legality Alliance/World Resources Institute (WRI)

California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California

September 16, 2015

www.greenwoodglobal.org [email protected]

www.maderaverde.org.hn [email protected]

International Awards 2014: Yale School of Forestry (USA) Vidanta Foundation (México)

Menominee Forest of Wisconsin

Good governance

Local control

Continuous inventory

Good management

235,000 acres: Sustainable Management Since 1850