Enabling Landscapes: INTERHOLCO's Sustainability Report 2017

Each tree important for a sacred or medicinal use is identified and clearly marked on the map
via GPS coordinates, so that it is left untouched as shown in the photo sequence above.
Sustainability in the forest concession entails anti-poaching efforts and wildlife protection.
Forest protection. 2016 data. Scope: IFO
Intact Forest Landscapes
In order to maintain High Conservation Value
(HCV) and Intact Forest Landscapes (IFL), FSC is
including more specific requirements in its
standards. Interholco has been actively engaged
with stakeholders, participating in IFL solutions
fora and the Regional Technical Working Group of
FSC, to find an optimal method for identification
and management of HCV and IFL in the Congo
Basin. All stakeholders agreed that a landscape
view 'well beyond the canopy' is necessary, in
order to address the conservation values and
keep the forest intact.
We have since long adopted an approach
recognizing and integrating the social,
environmental and economic landscapes within
and beyond our forest concession together with
the local and national regulatory as well as
regional and international political landscape.
Those different landscapes need not only coexist,
but they must interact with, and support,
each other without compromising any one
landscape. It is our experience and firm belief
that the equitable and comprehensive integration
of those very different social, environmental and
economic landscapes safeguards and maintains
IFL in the Congo Basin. National, regional and
international political and regulatory landscapes
provide the framework for integration of IFL.
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