Ten facts you need to know about
Northwest Aromatics and sustainability.
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Whether we produce 1 kg or 100 tons, our processing does not result in one single additional tree being cut down. Everything comes from sawdust already sustainably produced by the forest industry.
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BC's forest land-base is over 60 million hectares. That's an area larger than all of France.
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BC's rate of deforestation has been virtually zero for more than 20 years.
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BC's forests are 95% publicly owned. For over a decade, the public has decided which areas should be protected.
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Over 13 million hectares of BC are protected and another 14 million hectares are designated for special management.
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BC's entire annual harvest comes from less than 1% of the working forest.
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A 2003 independent study by Yale researchers found that BC has some of the most stringent forest sustainability requirements in the world.
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By law all harvest areas must be reforested. The seedlings used must be native species, and none of them can be genetically modified. These young forests are natural forests, not plantations.
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BC's forest industry has 44 million hectares certified to sustainable forest management certification standards.
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More than 70% of BC's annual harvest comes from operations that are certified for sustainability or meet internationally recognized criteria for environmental management systems.
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