forests
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2011International year of
Forests
Forests cover 31% of the total land area
Primary forests account for 36% of forest area
The livelihoods of over 1.6 billion people depend on
forests
Forests are home to 300 million of people around the
world
Forests are home to 80% of our terrestrial biodiversity
Trade in forest products was estimated at $327 billion in
2004
30% of forests are used for production of wood and non-
wood products
Illegal deforestation threatens the existence of
forests and accelerates the climate change
Bamboo shows up as a natural and sustainable
alternative to wood
According to WWF/Adena:
An Oak cannot be cut in less
than 7 yearsAn Ipe, not less than 100
yearsBamboo can be logged
every 6 years
325.000 football fields disappear each year due to
illegal logging
Giant moso
Main characteristics:
Quick growing
Phyllostachys pubescens
It does not need replantation
A huge extension - 6 to 9 million hectares
Main locations:
Eastern Chinese and Australian coasts
Bamboo is not a treeBamboo is a plant, with similar
characteristics to timberGiant moso can grow up to 30-50
cm a dayOn its adulthood, it can attain 15-30
metres highAnd a circumference of 35 cm
It attains its maturity at 6 years and
then stops growing
There are more than 1.500 bamboo species
Giant moso is located only in
tropical areas The biggest reserve of giant bamboo
is located in ChinaThe Phyllostachys pubescens is
applied, since thousands of years
ago, to multiple uses, from construction to food
Each year, 1/3 of the bamboo plantations can
be sustainably logged
Bamboo deforestation is almost impossible
=Natural
Reforestation
The panda bear lives on Central China
It looks for low bamboos, which have accessible leafs
Phyllostachys pubescens does not have leafs on its first 5 metres
So it does not represent a feed source for the Panda bear
Moso loggins is Panda bear friendly
Using bamboo is a mitigation solutionfighting against
illegal logging of trees
as well as against CO2 emissions increase
deforestationand
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