Channel 4 News in the UK released a news story about an investigation into the loss of key habitats due to the biomass green revolution.

The ‘period of silence’ is the time of the year when wild animals breed and it is prohibited to carry out activities that are a source of noise and disturbance in animal breeding sites, such as fireworks, use of small motor vessels, rallies or sanitary cuts of trees. In Ukraine, that period is set from 1 April to 15 June and applies to all forests, whether they are FSC certified or not.

As we mark the second year after the launch of the GIS Portal, FSC International Senior Outreach Officer, Technology and Innovation Loa Dalgaard Worm shares insights on the project. She describes the progress of FSC, its use of technology and ways in which it will lead to simplified audits and increased transparency of the FSC system and its certificate holders.

In an open letter addressed to FSC International’s Director General, Kim Carstensen, the Swedish trade union GS Facket urged FSC to declare Myanmar “a high-risk country” for violating human rights and cease from certifying raw materials (specifically teak) that originate from the country.

FSC introduces transaction verification for wood pellets covering the major producer and consumer markets in the Asia. 

In a recent review, FSC has uncovered several companies deliberately carried false claims and were terminated in the bamboo supply chain transaction verification, but came back with new certificates.

FSC suspends and terminates several FSC certificates in the plywood supply chain.

Growing concerns over illegal salvage logging in the Russian Federation prompted FSC Russia to launch a study to assess the risks of illegal timber – especially timber obtained illegally through salvage logging – entering FSC supply chains.

The new round of transaction verification for okoume will cover FSC claims made between 1 January 2019 to 31 December 2019. The deadline for certificate holders to submit requested transaction verification data is 29 September 2020.