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FSC passes motion to conserve ICLs and IFLs

 Thursday, October 20, 2022

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Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the global membership, has proposed a new plan of action for the protection of Indigenous Cultural Landscapes (ICLs) and Intact Forest Landscapes (IFLs) in FSC-certified areas and the surrounding forest landscape. Large, unbroken forest landscapes that have not seen industrial timber cutting in the last 30 to 70 years are known as intact forest landscapes (IFLs). These landscapes are unaffected by highways or other forms of industrial infrastructure. The Core Principles of FSC acknowledge their importance.

The new strategy combines a focus on the status of IFLs in the surrounding environment with standards for protecting IFLs inside of designated locations. Additionally, it calls for the recognition of Indigenous Cultural Landscapes on the lands of Indigenous Peoples (ICLs). In order to create an equitable, culturally appropriate, inclusive, and economically feasible model of management and protection, the strategy is built on partnership with key stakeholders, including concession holders and social and environmental stakeholders.

Broader conservation ambitions of the IFLs in the surrounding landscape – Kim Carstensen
The basis for working with certificate holders, governments, and stakeholders to foster further collaboration and engagement in forest protection, that will be relevant for international efforts to conserve biodiversity and the climate will be provided by linking the management of IFLs inside FSC certified forest management units with the broader conservation ambitions of the IFLs in the surrounding landscape, according to Kim Carstensen, managing director of FSC International. If accompanied with incentives and benefits intended to assist Indigenous People and Local Communities in protection of their forests and supporting their rights and livelihoods, the newly proposed strategy will be most effective.

“This is a great moment for all of us who have been working on a solution that can finally solve the issue of IFLs and strengthen their protection. We all want to protect forests and need to adapt to the challenges of forest management today. With this motion, we have a tool box based on stakeholders engagement, landscape and below the canopy approaches which will allow to improve in the IFLs rules” said Caroline Duhesme, Director of Innovation and Strategy of ATIBT, FSC member, Economic Chamber/North. “We thank all the members at the GA for their strong support of an issue that does not necessarily concern the entire membership but poses a real risk for some countries to leave the FSC system” she added.

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