The Iwokrama Inter-national Centre for Rain Forest Conserva-tion and Development announced yesterday that Farfan and Mendes Limited (FML) was selected as the private sector partner for the second phase of its model sustainable timber operation in the Iwokrama Forest.
Iwokrama had advertised in November last year for “Request for Proposals for Sawmilling Opera-tions” and received proposals from four companies. FML will conduct the sawmilling operations while the centre will maintain control of harvesting operations.
A press release from Iwokrama said that under Section 9 of the Iwokrama Act (1996), a complex and extensive zoning exercise was conducted on the Iwokrama Forest dividing it into a Wilderness Preserve (WP) and a Sustainable Utilization Area (SUA). The SUA was identified as the area where development work for the centre’s experimental timber model and all of its
