Management and Eucalyptus

The aim of Sustainable Forest Management and Eucalyptus is to inform
society of the reality of a tree which is often criticised but about which
little is actually known in terms of its extraordinary function and characteristics,
aspects which make it a unique resource in terms of generating
wealth and environmental benefits.
Through mass fixing of carbon and the corresponding oxygen production,
eucalyptus plantations create the renewable raw material which
is used to produce pulp and energy: cultivated wood and the forest
residue, which also have many other industrial and consumer-related
applications.
Above all, however, eucalyptus is a tree with a great environmental
value: efficient in the use of water, its sustainable growth is conducive
to biodiversity, reduces the risk of forest fires, provides new natural
spaces, recovers degraded or unusable soils and enriches the landscape.
All of which is, of course, hugely beneficial to the environment and
to society.
This well-managed asset becomes a driver of economic and social development,
and also provides us with one of the best options for curbing
the deforestation of natural woodland.
Sustainable forest management thus becomes an appropriate means
of extracting the potential wealth and prosperity offered by cultivated
woodland, while also providing us with an efficient means of fighting
climate change.
Sustainable Forest Management and Eucalyptus follows the work ENCE:
Creating jobs and wealth, which provides a summary of the social and
economic value of woodland and the Group’s production of pulp and
renewable energy in 2008 in Spain: 6,150 direct and indirect jobs and
5,070 induced jobs, in addition to 630 million euros in industrial and
forest purchases and investments, and 361 million in tax, Social Security
contributions and salaries.
This new work focuses mainly on eucalyptus and the environmental
and industrial benefits arising from sustainable forest management. Its
content is based on the compiling of independent reports and studies
prepared by prestigious scientists in research centres worldwide, whose
results are guaranteed, and whose most important conclusions are
gathered and presented here in a didactic and summarised form.