SUSTAINABLE FOREST

Wood furniture is forest products that produce by sustainable forest. Sustainability of forest products will depend on the sustainability of forests. On the other hand, sustainability of forest will depend on the way forest products are harvested and stability of land allocated to forestry against conservation to other uses. The continuous depletion of world forests, especially in developing countries, will eventually reduce the forest products availability.

Although the term sustainability has different meanings to different people, it has been used in the context of human survival on earth. In relation to production of forestland resources it means the ability of each generation to maintain and pass on a stock of forest resources no less productive, protective and utilizable than the stock inherited; such forestlands resources will include, natural forest and other sensitive ecosystem.

Forest products are harvested from the forest and from the forest grown on forestland. It may be part of the trees such as logs for wood furniture, bark, gum, leaves, fruits, oils, and flowers. It may be part of the forest but not of the tree such as wildlife, grass.  Some are intangible such as recreation services.

New products have been developing almost daily. Some of them are based on wood as like wood furniture, and non wood forest products such as medicine and other chemicals, genetic materials, and new plants, and animals to improve production of agricultural products. Availability of some of these new products depended on the sustainability of the forest.

Increasing awareness of the world's environmental problems in the consuming countries has created a lot of pressure in most industries to seek for more acceptable production and distribution processes. The main focus was originally give to the major pollution industries, are subject to increasing attention. In the consuming countries, timber and non-wood forest product certification or ecolabelling is considered necessary to achieve sustainability of forest management and to assure consumers that they are not contributing to deforestation when buying tropical forest produce.

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