In our last update on the FSC UK Small Woods Project, we told you that we were going to end up producing not one but two standards. One, a modified version of our existing national standard, will be fed into the UKWAS revision process. The other will be a far more radical standard, in line with the original vision for the project.
“When we first started this work, we deliberately opted for a UK only trial, not registered with FSC International,” says Dr Owen Davies, our Forest Standards Manager. “That’s because we wanted to be free to break some of FSC’s rules, and didn’t want our thinking to be constrained by feeling obliged to produce the sort of standard FSC would normally approve. Now, though, we feel that there is a growing appetite for more innovative solutions to the challenges of bringing smallholders into certification, and we think the time is right to take our work to the next level.”
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