The FSCC was established to support, monitor and facilitate the implementation of the Forest Sector Transformation Charter and ensure a transformed and sustainable forest sector that is fully compliant with the Forest Sector Code.
Continue reading →Forestry South Africa (FSA) is South Africa’s premier and largest forestry organisation representing growers of timber in South Africa. The Association’s membership includes all 11 corporate forestry companies active in the Industry, approximately 1 300 commercial timber farmers and some 20 000 emergent small scale growers who between them own or control no less than 93% of the total plantation area in the country. Given these credentials FSA is regarded by Government and the private sector alike as being the Industry’s “representative body”.
Continue reading →The KZNFPA emanated out of the Natal Midlands Fire Protection Association, which was formed in 1954 as there was a strong need amongst landowners to establish a co-ordinated forest fire fighting initiative in the Natal Midlands, inclusive of aviation support, as a result of the then ongoing effects from devastating wildfires in the Crammond plantations.
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