Importance of Wood
Most of us take the Importance of Wood in Our Everyday Life for granted.
But when people admire wood and timber products, they rarely think for a moment of the country of origin of the forest from which the wood is taken.
Nor indeed do they think of the conditions in which the population of that country live or the damage caused to their environment by the destruction of their forests.
Nor do they realise that the accumulated destruction of forests in all countries is contributing in a massive way towards overall global warming leading to a serious decline in biological diversity - the foundation of life. See NEW EU Timber Regulation
Just Forests aims to heighten general awareness of the implicit/explicit role wood, trees and forests play in our lives – from the man or woman who works with wood for a living here in Ireland, to the Africans and others around the world, who rely on wood merely to survive. Just Forests also endeavour to guide society towards a more responsible stewardship of the world's finite timber resource before it’s too late.