Maderacre carries out activities to identify and preserve High Conservation Values (HCVs) within the forest. Our low-impact forestry operations help maintain resilient landscapes, ensuring forest conservation, the generation of formal employment, and the development of communities in the surroundings.
Every company and individual leaves a carbon footprint (GHG emissions) from their daily activities.
Our climate projects implement actions to protect our forests, while supporting environmentally friendly productive initiatives within local communities, reducing the deforestation threat in the region.
Generating knowledge is essential for making informed decisions and serves as the foundation of adaptive management. With this in mind, Maderacre continuously conducts research and monitoring of the forest, its operations, and its environmental and social impacts. The data collected allows us to continuously improve.
Our operations and monitoring systems undergo annual audits by independent international certification bodies, ensuring compliance with FSC® FM/CoC, CCB, and VERRA (VCS, CCB) standards.
(4 ind/100 km2).
Presence of indicator species that reflect ecosystem health.
and wetlands under strict consevation.
than one tree per hectare per cutting cycle (30 years).
of poaching.
Less than 0.5% of the management unit area is affected by forestry operations.
(seedlings) of forest species under management, 9 years after forest harvesting (30 species).
In our management unit, around 27,000 hectares of forests are under strict conservation, protecting representative and fragile ecosystems, including wetlands and other High Conservation Value (HCV) areas that are crucial for wildlife maintenance, such as clay licks (mineral deposits), dens, and springs.
Each year, through forest inventories, HCV sites are identified, georeferenced, and characterized, along with the trees’ inventory data. Combined with remote sensing technology, this data serves as the basis for forest operation planning, prioritizing ecosystem impact mitigation.
At Maderacre, we guarantee the legal origin of our timber. This is achieved through a unique coding system assigned to each tree during the forest inventory, which is kept throughout the harvesting and processing stages. This system is integrated into our chain-of-custody procedures within both industrial and commercial operations. These processes are annually audited by independent accreditation bodies and competent forestry authorities.
Our industry sources its materials exclusively from our certified forests, ensuring that 100% of our products are FSC®-certified. This minimizes the risk of contamination with non-certified materials and prevents controversial sources from entering our production lines.
"Research conducted by our partner, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, has demonstrated that Maderacre’s sustainable forest management in the Tahuamanu region and its REDD+ initiatives have helped reduce deforestation and conserve wildlife in the area. Specifically, these forests are home to 106 mammal species (20% of all terrestrial mammals in Peru) and support the second-largest jaguar population density in the world (4 individuals/100 km²), after the Pantanal in Brazil."
We aim to measure the impact of our operations based on the resilience and overall health of the ecosystem. Studies developed in collaboration with San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance have confirmed that our forests host the world’s second-highest jaguar population density (4 individuals/100 km²), which has remained protected thanks to forest management actions aligned with FSC® standards.
Additionally, ornithological studies led by Fernando Angulo (CORBIDI) have determined that our managed forests maintain healthy populations of bird species characteristic of healthy ecosystems.
In partnership with SERNANP and the Frankfurt Zoological Society, we implemented conservation actions aimed at maintaining populations of the Taricaya turtle species, which play a crucial role in the river ecosystem of the Tahuamanu River basin. These turtles are also an essential part of the diet of Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation who inhabit the upper regions of the basin we help to manage.
Additionally, our monitoring and surveillance efforts make us a key player in protecting Indigenous territories, particularly in favor of the Madre de Dios Territorial Reserve and the Alto Purús National Park.
Based on research done in the forest, we have established the most suitable silvicultural parameters for effective management. Rotation cycles, minimum cutting diameters, harvest intensity, and the percentage of seed-producing trees have been carefully calculated based on the population structure, growth, and ecological characteristics of each forest species. This approach not only ensures future harvests but also keeps the ecological roles of tree species within our forest management system.
Maderacre implements a polycyclic silvicultural system with highly selective harvesting, based on natural regeneration. Protected seed trees and those that have not yet reached the minimum cutting diameter provide the genetic material necessary for natural forest regeneration.
All harvesting operations follow low-impact logging techniques to protect both worker safety and key ecosystem components, including biodiversity, water, soil, and air quality. This ensures a healthy and resilient ecosystem.
"Nearly one-third of tropical forests are designated for timber production. However, poorly managed commercial logging can degrade ecosystems and fragment habitats, threatening biodiversity. On the other hand, when logging is managed responsibly, it has the potential to support local livelihoods and economic development while also conserving biodiversity and other vital services that forests provide. There are several examples of sustainable forest management, such as Maderacre and its REDD+ initiatives, which have positively contributed to the sustainable management of the Tahuamanu forests by helping reduce deforestation in the region and generating formal employment. WWF has been involved in research within Maderacre’s concession, which has added valuable knowledge on forest management and conservation."
A comprehensive protection strategy capable of safeguarding forest integrity requires action on two levels: first, direct surveillance and custodianship of the area, and second, threat management. The second one addresses deforestation pressure from local landowners/communities, by promoting environmentally friendly productive projects, which reduces the deforestation rate.
Forest sustainability depends on achieving high management standards, and a key component of this is the implementation of a strong and effective surveillance and custodianship system. This system must be capable of preventing threats such as deforestation, illegal logging, and poaching, which originate from external actors targeting the management unit.
Maderacre operates five surveillance posts strategically located to effectively control terrestrial and river access to the area year-round. Additionally, regular patrols, signage, and boundary demarcation are conducted within the forest management unit. These efforts are complemented by remote sensing technologies and deforestation monitoring tools, such as the Global Forest Watch platform (https://gfw.global/3Up8EXT).
To date, there have been no cases of invasion or deforestation within the area.
