We source our wood exclusively in legal forests in Cameroon and Gabon. We work inside our owned UFA, VC, FC , Communal Forests. Our wood is 100% Legal and comply with FLEGT and UETR DUE DILIGENCE requirements.
The Forest Law Enforcement, Governance
and Trade (FLEGT) Action Plan is the
European Union response to concerns
about illegal logging and deforestation.
FLEGT started in 2001, the Action Plan
was completed in 2003.
The FLEGT Action Plan recognizes
that consumer countries contribute to
illegal logging through the demand for
timber and wood-based products. The
Plan encompasses seven measures,
including the establishment of bilateral
partnerships (Voluntary Partnership
Agreements, VPAs) with producing countries to build their capacity and support
reforms in governance in the forest
sectors to reduce the production of
illegally harvested timber.
The VPAs also seek to establish and implement tracking and licensing systems,
called Legality Assurance Systems (LAS),
to ensure that only legally produced
products enter the European Union.
As of April 2013, six countries have
signed and/or ratified a VPA agreement
and are developing their LAS (Cameroon,
Central African Republic, Ghana, Indonesia, Liberia, and the Republic of Congo);
six countries are in the negotiation
phase (Democratic Republic of Congo,
Gabon, Guyana, Honduras, Malaysia,
and Vietnam); and 13 countries are in the
pre-negotiation phase (Bolivia, Cambodia, Colombia, Côte d’Ivoire, Ecuador,
Guatemala, Laos, Myanmar/Burma,
Papua New Guinea, Perú, Sierra Leone,
the Solomon Islands, and Thailand.
