The SFI conservation impact project: supporting forest-based solutions for climate- change mitigation and biodiversity conservation
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SFI has provided certification standards for sustainable forest practices and forest fiber procurement since 1995, and has experienced tremendous growth, such that SFI’s Forest Management Standard is the most widely applied single forest management standard in the world, with over 365 million certified acres (147 million hectares). Seeing the need for better understanding of the conservation related outcomes from decades of sustainable management, SFI initiated the Conservation Impact Project in 2016 to enumerate outcomes across the critical themes of climate change, biodiversity, and water. Findings of these collaborative research projects reveal the critical role of these certified forests toward landscape-scale biodiversity, wide ranging bird species in decline, and carbon capture and storage. These findings make clear that SFI Certified forests contribute significantly and uniquely to forest conservation outcomes in the United States and Canada and suggest the potential importance of sustainably managed certified forests in meeting global conservation objectives.
Keywords: sustainable forest management, climate, carbon, conservation
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