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What We Do
How the TFT works
The TFT helps Member businesses - retailers and suppliers of tropical wood products - to find out where their wood comes from, and to link them with acceptable forest sources. As a minimum first step, their wood must come from legally verified forest operations. But TFT Members are also committed to increasing the volume of wood that they source from well managed forests, and TFT assists by improving the sustainability of management practices in the forests that produce their wood.
A Forest Story takes a look at sustainable forestry
Our staff work in partnership with local forest managers to ensure that environmental values are protected and enhanced, that indigenous and other local communities share in the benefits, and that the forest management units can demonstrate their long-term economic viability.
This is often a challenging task in countries where forest ecosystems and community relations are equally complex, and where forest law enforcement can be uneven.
TFT staff also link the forests to our Member's supplying factories through robust 'Wood Control Systems' that prevent any unknown/potentially illegal wood from being introduced at any point in the supply chain or during manufacturing.
With the right people on the ground and our Members' practical commitment, the task is challenging but achievable. TFT Members are excluding ‘unkown source' wood from their supply chains and using more ‘Known Legal Source', FSC and TFT wood. As a result, a growing area of threatened tropical forest is coming under better management.
TFT Worldwide shows the location of TFT projects
In addition to this core programme, the TFT is involved with a number of other programmes that promote legality and sustainability in the tropical timber trade.
The TFT markets FSC certified Bolivian timber in Europe through the Bolfor II project, manages the EU Timber Trade Action Plan, and - in cooperation with Helveta Ltd. - has developed TracElite timber tracking technology.
To learn more about TFT activities and achievements see Words Into Action.
