Over the last forty years, the Brazilian Amazon has lost almost 800,000 square kilometers, an area the size of the entire US eastern seaboard from South Carolina to Maine, a size equivalent to the combined areas of the UK and France. Scientists are noticing something disturbing in the Amazon rainforest: deforestation is leading to the failure of the forest ecosystem.
Many scientists believe we are reaching a tipping point. Within five years the Amazon biome may cease to be a rainforest and become savanna-like with semiarid vegetation at current deforestation rates. This will have significant consequences on weather patterns and wreak havoc on agricultural production around the world. ASF wants to help reverse this trend.
As a forestry management company we preserve and transform the forest through sustainable harvesting and reforestation:
80% of ASF properties are devoted to sustainable harvesting. (This also provides cash-flow from project outset.)
On the remaining 20% of its properties (current and future) ASF implements reforestation plantations with high value exotic species (i.e. teak, mahogany, rosewood, paricá).