AFCA and its members believe that due to decades of over logging and climate change it is now no longer possible to achieve sustainable industrial native forest logging in Australia nor in Primary forests around the world. AFCA believe that if the concerns we raise in this submission are met and the risk assessment process is followed correctly then the only acceptable method of taking wood from forests under an FSC certification would be extremely small scale, selective, sensitive and scientifically based extraction methods. Our participation and submission is made in good faith that our concerns will be addressed in the IGI’s.
The Australian Forests and Climate Alliance has reviewed to a limited degree (owing to time constraints) the draft of Australian FSC Standard issued for comment, (hereafter referred to as Draft AFSCS). We have concerns with fundamental premises on which content of the draft is based and discuss these below to ensure that any comments we make in the spreadsheet provided for analysis of the performance criterion indicators proposed for Draft AFSCS are considered or ‘qualified’ in relation to that discussion.
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