"How we deal with our growth, in terms of new cultures, the issues of climate change, indigenous peoples, and tropical forests will determine in large part how we will be judged 10 years from today", remarked William Street, PEFC Chairman, at a recent meeting, highlighting the importance of...

With forests in the Asia-Pacific region being among the world’s most complex – and threatened – ecosystems, PEFC International in collaboration with the Malaysian Timber Certification Council (MTCC) invited stakeholders to a two-day seminar to update on sustainable forest management and forest...

"As the world's largest forest certification system and the certification system of choice for hundreds of thousands of small-and family forest owners, it is our collective responsibility to integrate best practices, new scientific knowledge, stakeholder and customer expectations, as well as...

Forests are biologically diverse ecosystems representing some of the richest biological areas on Earth. They offer habitats for plants, animals and micro-organisms. However, forest biodiversity is increasingly threatened as a result of issues such as deforestation, conversions, and...