This Industry requires a carefully planned supply of wood as well as a secure provision of raw materials for its long term operations.
ENDESA and BOTROSA together with "Fundacion Forestal Juan Manuel Durini" (FFJMD) started their forest plantations program in 1978 in the coastal area of Ecuador. Beginning in 1990 they started with a Sustainable Forest Management program involving the native forests by means of buying more land and by subscribing agreements with the local communities as a company policy to secure a long term supply of materials. ENDESA and BOTROSA have organized and specialized the supply of lumber by using Reduced Impact logging techniques and a careful approach to road construction and transportation of lumber. We need to look forward and plan for the next thirty years or more as we have to be accountable for the natural resources which will represent the future basis for the economic, social and environmental development of the region. Therefore, "Bosques para Siempre" represent todays as well as tomorrows alternative pushed forward by companies that believe and practice the rational use of forestry resources in the country.
"Bosques para Siempre" (BPS) Program contributes in reducing the rate of deforestation in Ecuador which is caused mainly by the expansion of the agricultural frontier and by new settlements. We do this by monitoring forest management for its correct utilization and by a permanent control of the conservation of the resources by means of providing added value to the products and services generated by the forest.
Forests are renewable natural resources. BPS makes economic use of forest resources but at the same time it does support the natural regeneration of the tree species and the extraction of only selected mature trees, by providing good care of young and middle age regenerating trees thus reducing environmental impacts and destructive practice s and in the case of plantations, by replacing harvested areas with new plantations.
