It is a good opportunity to highlight the issue of the increasing demand for tropical timber by making the public aware of the severe situation in the tropical forests and the abuse of indigenous and local communities. SSNC is of the opinion that a reduced demand is necessary and that the FSC is only one of several tools needed to steer the commercial timber trade into a better direction. The crucial thing is to enable local communities to decide for themselves how to use best the forest resources without being forced into commercial logging, certified or not. A dialogue with southern NGOs is most essential for the SSNC in order to see to that the work on tropical forests enjoys strong support among our partners in the south. The reason for SSNC to focus on garden furniture is mainly because it is a product which consumers are persuaded to buy explicitly because it is made of tropical timber.
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