Sustainable Forest Management

Sustainability: A state or process that can be maintained indefinitely. The principles of sustainability integrate three closely interlined elements—the environment, the economy and the social system—into a system that can be maintained in a healthy state indefinitely.

Sustainable forest management: management regimes applied to forest land which maintain the productive and renewal capacities as well as the genetic, species and ecological diversity of forest ecosystems.

Sustainable forestry means managing our forests to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs by practicing a land stewardship ethic which integrates the reforestation, managing, growing, nurturing and harvesting of trees for useful products with the conservation of soil, air and water quality, wildlife and fish habitat and aesthetics.  We use our resources purposefully in the interests of long-term growth and sustainable conservation of high-quality wood.

Danzer Group is a wood processing company and therefore bears an exceptional responsibility. Ensuring the ongoing availability of high-quality wood resources and thus our own ability to do business effectively through qualitative, sustainable forest management is the most important concern of Danzer Group. In this connection, we have introduced sweeping guidelines for the procurement of round and sawn timber and veneer as part of our environmental management system.

The business activities of Danzer Group involve using the natural resource of wood wisely. We take consideration of the principle of sustainable forest management both in choosing our suppliers as well as in managing our own forests.

The principle of sustainable forest management implies to protect large-scale forest ecosystems and to use them in such a manner that they can fulfill important social, economic and cultural needs of people on a permanent basis. This refers to the preservation of bio-diversity of fauna and flora, to the conservation and increase of productivity of forest stands, and to regeneration and maintaining the vitality of forests.