Plantation Forests
A plantation forest is a man made forest grown as a crop usually seedlings of a single species are planted. The forests are sustainable and renewable.

Sustainable – Because over a long period of time no more wood is removed and then forest can be replaced.

Renewable – Because the crop is replanted on 20-30 years rotation.

When forests are growing, they act as a ‘carbon sink’ because they remove Carbon Dioxide from the atmosphere as a part of the photosynthesis in this way, forest helps to off set the green house effect great care is taken to preserve soil and water and with immediate replanting, a continuous cycle occurs.

Wood is just the product of Carbon Dioxide, energy from the sun and water, combined from a natural process known as photosynthesis. A sustainable supply and one of the most amazing materials known to man. Today wood products are integrated part of are lives. We live in them, sit on them, write on them, use them for our industry and paint with them and so on.

Forests are an amazing source of valuable products including timber, reconstituted wood and wood chemical products. Less tangible, social, economic and environmental benefits can also be classed as products of forests.

Fuel from Wood
Firewood and charcoal account for more than half of global wood consumption. These products are very important in developing countries where they are used for domestic heating, cooking and for industry.