Bulkan, manufacturers differ on sustainable management of greenheart

Forestry expert Janette Bulkan has backed the United Kingdom’s decision to ban the importation of greenheart from Guyana for government projects since it was not from a sustainable source, although the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) said that the forests are well managed and the timber is from legal sources.

In May last year, a technical note released by the UK to contractors for government-funded projects, among others, stated that they will apply the timber agreement policy rigorously and they will only buy timber from legal and sustainable sources, which currently prohibits