Ecosystem-Based Forestry
Our forests provide a host of benefits -- clean air and clean water, wildlife habitat and recreation, in addition to supplying the wood fiber for products people use every day. MWV is a leader in ecosystem-based, multiple-use, stewardship-oriented forestry. Our Ecosystem-Based Forestry approach uses multiple management zones, with each zone having one primary, and numerous secondary functions. In determining these zones, our forest managers consider water quality, site productivity, wildlife habitat, visual quality, biodiversity and the need to protect areas of special significance.
In Brazil, approximately 55 percent of Rigesa's forestlands are planted in pine and eucalyptus, and the balance is in protected natural forest preserves.
