Sep 09, 2015. /Lesprom Network/. The Brazilian Forest Service (SFB) announced that the Federal government would make available 2.11 million hectares of forest concessions from 2016. In proposing this the authorities point out that forest concession management models facilitate forest maintenance and protection, ITTO reported.

It is considered that the forest concession model provides for legal controls which may not be provided under other land management models. In addition, such management systems provide for dialogue between the government and the private sector in support of rational exploitation of forest resources.

Currently, the SFB maintains forest concession contracts in five National Forests in the Amazonian states of Pará and Rondônia. They have set aside the total of 842,000 hectares of natural forest that will be sustainably managed by 8 companies for the next 40 years.