Download Romanian and Bulgarian timber trade opportunity for the

UNECE seminar on Strategies for
the sound use of wood
Romanian and Bulgarian
timber trade opportunity for
the region
Presentation by George Dinicu
March 2003, Poiana Brasov
Introduction
 Romania’s and Bulgaria’s forests – some of the
most biologically important temperate forests in
the world
 Carpathian forests belong to one of 200 most
important ecoregions defined by WWF in the
world
 Forest area covers 10,4 mil. Ha in both countries
 Annual allowable cut volume over 22 mil.cm in
both countries
Producer Group in the region
 Promote responsible timber trade
 Protection of High Conservation Value Forests
 Support to forest managers and primary wood
processors
Characteristics of timber market
 Forest sector is, at present, dominated by state
 Restitution of forests to new private ownership in
progress
 in 2001 the value of Romania’s export of forest
products (excluding furniture) to countries in the
European Union reached 210 million USD, and
total value of exports was 474 mil USD
Characteristics of timber market
mil.$
Romania forest products export-excluding furniture(source:INS
and FAOSTAT)
500
400
300
200
100
0
Total export of forest
products exluding
furniture
Export in ECC
1998
1999
2000
Year
2001
Romanian/Bulgarian Producer
Group – part of WWF’s Global
Forest and Trade Network
 Information and training on how to reach
certification through a modular approach
 Links to markets for certified forest products
 Training and capacity building on RFM
High Conservation Value Forests
 Significant concentrations of biodiversity values
(endemism, endangered species,)
 Significant large landscape level forests where
viable populations of most if not all naturally
occurring species exist in natural patterns of
distribution and abundance.
 Forest areas that are in or contain rare,
threatened or endangered ecosystems
High Conservation Value Forests
 Forest areas that provide basic services of
nature in critical situations (watershed
protection, erosion control)
 Forest areas fundamental to meeting basic
needs of local communities
 Forest areas critical to local communities’
traditional cultural identity.
Conclusions
 Promote responsible timber trade through a
Producer Group in the region
 Protection of those forests with outstanding or
critical biological, environmental or social values
defined as High Conservation Value Forests
(HCVF).