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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
