• Logwood production in Amazon Legal declining from 28M M3 in 1998 to 8,8M M3 in 2018 corresponding to a total logged area of just 400.000 ha pr year in 2018. (Imaflora, 2020*) A small recovery after 2018 and it is now in the order of 10-11 M m3 per year.  

• This requires a minimum area of 500.000 hectares harvested under sound management per year in a 30 year cycle which in reality requires at least 15-25 Mha of Forest Concessions. 

• By late 2022, there was a total of 2,7M ha of sound forest management in the Amazon, being 1,7 million hectares in State and Federal concessions.   

• Roughly 2M ha where FSC certified. (There is an overlap between certified areas and concessions). Part of the FSC Global Strategy is to double the FSC certified area in the entire tropical region to 50 Mha by 2026.  

• Brazilian Forest Service released news that they are planning for 4,8 Mio Ha of State and Federal Concessions in 2022, in 2023 primarily in the Amazon region 

• A realistic potential area for forest concessions in Amazon Legal is estimated to be at least 38M ha - and could be doubled if communities and Indigenous lands and their people are included and involved through FSC certification.  

• Official data (Prodes) estimates deforestation in the Amazon in the order of 1,16M hectares in 2022 largely driven by beef cattle ranching and industrial agriculture. 

To achieve true sustainability in Amazon Legal by 2030 we must 

Increase Forest Concessions under the Forest Brazil code  – from 4,8 Mha to 20 Mha 

Increase FSC certified Forest management from 2 to at least 10 Mha 

In other words – we must beat the “opponent” clearing 1,16 Mha of forest each and every year…. 

Numbers Verified by Imaflora March 2023.