KIWI THREAT: FSC AND FORESTERS BATTLE OVER 1080 BAN

摘要

Has the FSC dealt a killer blow to New Zealand's most famous icon, the kiwi, by rejecting the advice of its own expert panel on pesticides? Michael Dover reports on the organisation's latest clash with the forest industry. The Forest Stewardship Council certification scheme is widely regarded as the strictest of the forest harvesting certification processes. Created in the 1990s by environmental and social groups, foresters and landowners, the FSC aimed "to provide consumers with a rigorous, independent system for identifying products from ecologically, socially, and economically well-managed forests".