Bamboo as a mitigation solution to deforestation

1. 2011 International year of Forests

2. Forests cover 31% of the total land area

3. Primary forests account for 36% of forest area

4. The livelihoods of over 1.6 billion people depend on forests

5. Forests are home to 300 million of people around the world

6. Forests are home to 80% of our terrestrial biodiversity

7. Trade in forest products was estimated at $327 billion in 2004

8. 30% of forests are used for production of wood and non-wood products

9. Illegal deforestation threatens the existence of forests and accelerates the climate change

10. Bamboo shows up as a natural and sustainable alternative to wood

11. According to WWF/Adena: 325.000 football fields disappear each year due to illegal logging An Oak cannot be cut in less than 7 years An Ipe, not less than 100 years Bamboo can be logged every 6 years

12. Giant moso Phyllostachyspubescens Main characteristics: Quick growing It does not need replantation A huge extension- 6 to 9 million hectares

13. Main locations: Eastern Chinese and Australian coasts

14. Bamboo is not a tree Bamboo is a plant, with similar characteristics to timber Giant moso can grow up to 30-50 cm a day On its adulthood, it can attain 15-30 metres high And a circumference of 35 cm It attains its maturity at 6 years and then stops growing

16. There are more than 1.500 bamboo species Giant moso is located only in tropical areas The biggest reserve of giant bamboo is located in China The Phyllostachyspubescensis applied, since thousands of years ago, to multiple uses, from construction to food

17. Each year, 1/3 of the bamboo plantations can be sustainably logged = Natural Reforestation Bamboo deforestation is almost impossible

18. Mosologgins is Panda bear friendly The panda bear lives on Central China It looks for low bamboos, which have accessible leafs Phyllostachyspubescensdoes not have leafs on its first 5 metres So it does not represent a feed source for the Panda bear

20. Using bamboo is a mitigation solution . . . fighting against deforestation and illegal logging of trees as well as against CO2 emissions increase