Enabling Landscapes: INTERHOLCO's Sustainability Report 2017
Interholco presents its first stand-alone Sustainability Report simultaneously in Baar, Switzerland and in Vancouver, Canada, where the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) General Assembly 2017 has just been kicked off. Interholco is an active participant at this General Assembly. To find out more: https://interholco.com/images/pdfs/Enabling-Landscapes-INTERHOLCO-Sustainability-Report-2017-.pdf
Interholco presents its first stand-alone Sustainability Report simultaneously in Baar, Switzerland and in Vancouver, Canada, where the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) General Assembly 2017 has just been kicked off. Interholco is an active participant at this General Assembly.
To find out more: https://interholco.com/images/pdfs/Enabling-Landscapes-INTERHOLCO-Sustainability-Report-2017-.pdf
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Total drinking and industry water withdrawal<br />
2016 data. Scope: IFO<br />
95’754 m 3<br />
Water<br />
from the Sangha river<br />
-21%<br />
compared with 2014<br />
due to 'Eau pour Tous'<br />
drinking water<br />
government initiative<br />
Working together to address forest fires<br />
Early in 2016, several fires originated all<br />
over Africa and also within our forest<br />
concession, in open woodland forests,<br />
characterised by a dense Marantaceae and<br />
Zingiberaceae undergrowth. We carried out<br />
an exploratory mission, in cooperation with<br />
the local authorities. With the largest<br />
cluster being estimated at 10 x 15 km, the<br />
fires appeared to have irregularly<br />
punctuated different areas, no longer or<br />
not yet affected by forest operations.<br />
A few months later, we launched an<br />
independent Working Group on Forest<br />
Fires in Open Marantaceae Forests (click<br />
here or scan the QR code to find out more),<br />
to see how best to address the impact of<br />
extreme weather events, such as El Niño.<br />
Some 20 experts from international<br />
research institutes and NGOs joined the<br />
working group. The experts agreed that the<br />
presence of Marantaceae vegetation is a<br />
sign that forest fires had already taken<br />
place in the past, over many years, without<br />
harvest. This can be explained by higher<br />
presence of charcoal in the soil and signs<br />
of a similar sized fire about 50 years ago.<br />
Contrary to what might be expected,<br />
science and on-the-ground studies showed<br />
that tree harvesting in these forests<br />
stimulates natural regeneration, which is<br />
inhibited in ‘intact’ forests. Further to the<br />
working group findings (click here or scan<br />
the QR code to find out more), fire-risk<br />
awareness-raising will be integrated in the<br />
activities that our social team already<br />
carries out with the local communities and<br />
Indigenous Peoples.<br />
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