Partnerships and links
Partners
Panthera, founded in 2006, is devoted exclusively to preserving wild cats and their critical role in the world’s ecosystems. Panthera’s team of leading biologists, law enforcement experts and wild cat advocates develop innovative strategies based on the best available science to protect cheetahs, jaguars, leopards, lions, pumas, snow leopards, and tigers, and their vast landscapes. In 36 countries around the world, Panthera works with a wide variety of stakeholders to reduce or eliminate the most pressing threats to wild cats—securing their future, and ours.
CRITERION AFRICA PARTNERS
Criterion Africa Partners (CAP) is a leading player in the forestry sector in Sub-Saharan Africa. Criterion’s track record, local presence, operational experience, and global network allow the team to create value through active participation and partnership with management teams.
It adheres to international best-practices in both environmental and social standards.
THE GRANTHAM FOUNDATION
Founded by GMO’s founder, Jeremy Grantham, with the objective of helping protect the environment and promote sustainable environmental practices in key projects around the world. In particular it supports institutions such as WWF, Yale University, London School of Economics, Imperial College, Metcalf Institute for Marine and Environmental Reporting
A unique example of protection of large mammals in an area of 1.5 million hectares.
Within the framework of a national action plan for the protection of fauna, a convention for tripartite collaboration was signed in 2008 and renewed in 2015 between The Ministry of Water and Forests, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and Compagnie des Bois du Gabon (CBG). This exemplary public-private partnership has the mission to protect large mammals (elephants, gorillas, chimpanzees, panthers, buffalos, antelopes) in the CBG concession within the Gamba complex. The activities carried out within the partnership include sensitizing nearby populations, hunting supervision and an assessment of the situation on the spot.
A 600-hectare protected area for scientific research
Dozens of international researchers study the evolution of flora, fauna and the environment in CBG concessions. A 25-hectare forest plot, protected by a 600-hectare buffer zone, enables them to detect changes affecting the forest on a worldwide scale. The collaboration between the Smithsonian Biology and Conservation Institute and CBG enables the latter to be permanently informed of scientific results emanating from studies on biodiversity carried out in its concession.
CBG is member of Forests Forward
Global demand for land, energy, and wood products is increasing while deforestation
and forest degradation continue at an alarming rate. Meeting this growing demand while keeping forests intact requires bold solutions. Companies and investors worldwide are in a unique position to enable innovative approaches that conserve and enhance the benefits of biodiversity-rich, productive forest landscapes while meeting some of the biggest challenges of our time: climate change, water and food security and sustainable livelihoods.
WWF’s new "Forests Forward" platform aims to improve the management of 150 million hectares of forest by 2030, providing opportunities to create meaningful impact in landscapes and facilitating reporting on these impacts. It has a strong emphasis on indigenous people and local communities, which play a critical role in forest conservation with local models of governance that can help protect forests, often better than many other forms of forest stewardship.
Participants in "Forests Forward" can engage in areas such as sustainable forest and plantations management, responsible timber trade, better silviculture, reforestation and ecosystem restoration, biodiversity protection and recovery, tackling illegality throughout the timber supply chain, credible forest certification, fair, inclusive and equitable value chains and investments in key landscapes. The programme is also developing a pipeline of land-use projects as part of WWF Bankable Nature Solutions. Through technical assistance to the origination and structuring of projects, participating companies in Forests Forward with a stake in plantations will implement the New Generation Plantations concept
to conserve biodiversity and meet human needs, while contributing to sustainable economic growth and local livelihoods.
Thanks to the Forests Forward, CBG has reinforced its position in order to initiate and promote responsible forestry management. All the forestry management activities carried out by CBG are covered by the FSC® certification (BV-FM / COC-639590) and its transformation and trading activities are also covered by the FSC® layout for its traceability chain. "We have chosen to enhance both timber and forests in order to conserve them and to respect the populations making a living from timber and those living in the forest" declared Guillaume Fenart, President of CBG. For more information on the Forests Forward, go to:
https://forestsforward.panda.org/
35,000m3 of peeled veneer
In partnership with the Joubert group, leader in Okoumé plywood, CBG has developed a peeling plant since 2000, Compagnie des Placages des Bois du Gabon (CPBG).
35,000m3 of outstanding quality peeled veneer is produced annually and exported to international markets
CBG is proud to be a member of STTC
STTC is an alliance between industrialists, traders, governments and NGO's which aims to develop the European demand for tropical timbers produced by responsible management.
Working in close collaboration with the European Timber Trade Federation (ETTF), STTC aims to develop the market with an incitation to growth and propagation of responsible management of forests in tropical countries.
Developed by the BioWooEB research unit (Biomass, wood, energy, bioproducts), Tropix 7 identifies the main technological characteristics of 245 tropical and temperate forest timbers.
The technical specifications of these timbers are always available for consultation free of charge.
The Atlas of tropical
timbers displays the main technological characteristics of 283 tropical and 17 temperate forest timbers most demanded in Europe, together with their main corresponding uses.
The operators of the timber sector will be the main users, whether they be producers or consumers. This work constitutes a pedagogical reference tool for teaching and training in the area of forestry and timber in tropical regions.
IUCN is a membership Union composed of both government and civil society organisations. It harnesses the experience, resources and reach of its more than 1,300 Member organisations and the input of more than 15,000 experts. This diversity and vast expertise makes IUCN the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.