This is an archive of a session that took place on Wednesday, October 30, 2019. Despite the importance of long-term forest health for forest-dependent economies, poor logging practices are common across the tropics, producing greenhouse gas emissions and negatively impacting forest ecosystems and the biodiversity they support. Responsible forest management and certification have been promoted as tools to protect forest ecosystems and their resources. To verify those claims, and to effectively to tackle the emissions and biodiversity loss from logging, it is important to assess the actual impacts of certification and the potential climate benefits of reduced-impact logging.
In this learning session, Dr. Rosa Goodman, Assistant Professor at the Dept. Forest Ecology and Management of Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), and Vania Tejeda, Biodiversity Officer at WWF-Perú, present recent scientific studies on the emissions and biodiversity impacts of conventional and reduced impact logging in the Peruvian Amazon, and share recommendations for forest managers and policymakers on improving the conservation outcomes of responsible forest management
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