The Tropical Forest Foundation’s primary mission is to promote sustainable tropical forest management as the best way to preserve tropical forests’ renewable resources and natural habitats. Through on-site demonstration and training, research and advocacy the organization aims to affect behavioral change and encourage sustainable forest management among industries that utilize tropical wood products.

The Tropical Forest Foundation (TFF), a US non-profit foundation, was formed in 1990 by leaders of industry, science, and conservation who shared a concern for the protection of tropical forests. The foundation was established to foster dialogue and alliances between industry and conservation organizations, improve tropical forest management and enhance the economic value of tropical forests.

The diverse leadership team of TFF is composed of representatives from the industry, the scientific, academic and conservation communities, and the world’s major supplying and consuming regions. Each member has a shared interest in the conservation of tropical forests through education and the creation of a sustainable timber industry.

The Tropical Forest Foundation demonstrates a strong commitment to advancing environmental, economic, and social sustainability. In order to implement methods of tropical forest conservation and management, TFF promotes education and unique on the ground training. The Tropical Forest Foundation also provides services to verify the legality of wood products sourced in the tropics.

The Tropical Forest Foundation offers a variety of services that, when combined, work towards TFF’s overall goal of conserving and maintaining our world’s tropical forest resources.

Our products and services include:

Verification is an affordable, less complicated stepping stone to aid tropical forest communities in implementing sustainable forest management. TFF RIL Verified® sets a Reduced Impact Logging standard and a transparent system for verifying compliance and Chain of Custody (CoC).

The TFF project directors in the Amazon, Congo Basin and Asia Pacific regions are available to assist timber companies in qualifying and verifying the source of their products.

TFF provides affordable classroom and on-the-ground training programs in sustainable forest management principles. TFF training also advances environmental, economic and social sustainability through the education and implementation of RIL.

TFF has become widely recognized for establishing on-site demonstration models to show the advantages and teach the principles of sustainable forest management through the application of reduced impact logging practices.

TFF, in partnership with Virginia Tech, is developing a capacity for assisting governments, organizations, companies and landowners to measure, document, and register verified emission reduction credits for improved forestry practices.

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