Professional Technical Support for the Forest and Wood Products Industries |
Global Forestry Services (GFS) provides formal programs and services for forestry, wood processing and trade in regards to:
GFS Forestry Support Program provides a formal system to forestry companies to meet international certification standards such as Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Programme for Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC). GFS provides Legal Verification & Wood Tracking Services for timber and wood products to support the due diligence requirements under the US Lacey Act, EU Timber Regulations, the Australian Illegal Logging Act and Japan Goho Wood. GFS also collaborates with partner companies to provide integrated IT database and verification systems for data management and tracking of timber from the forest through processing & trade of wood products. GFS has established forest investment services to develop secure high yielding Green Investments competitive to equity markets that support forest restoration through intensive planting of fast growing local commercial tree species. GFS is dedicated to support efforts to curb Climate Change through programs that generate carbon credits from Carbon Sequestration and Avoided Deforestation (REDD+). |