TFF: Reduced Impact, Improved Income & Better Market Credibility. Hasbie Hasbillah, Executive Director, Tropical Forest Foundation Indonesia. Indonesia; Member, Board of Directors Indonesia Ecolabel Institute.
TFF is an international coalition of industry, conservation, and scientific leaders working to achieve to the sustainable management of tropical timber. TFF has established demonstration models and training schools to show the advantages and teach the principles of sustainable forest management and Reduced Impact Logging (RIL), including Reduced Impact Logging Carbon (RIL Carbon). TFF promotes sustainable tropical forest management by gathering and disseminating information about its benefits and by teaching proper management practices to promote trade in forest products from legally sourced and sustainably managed timber. Adoption of RIL will: 1) Reduce impact on soil and future crop trees up to 50 %; 2) Save money up to 20%, with improved efficiency, higher productivity, less waste, less conflict; 3) Promote market credibility; and 4) Reduce emissions of CO2 by 30 to 60 %. TFF has contributed to the success of forest certification of more than 2 million hectares by FSC standards in Indonesia, Malaysia, and Papua New Guinea.
Hasbie Hasbillah, Executive Director, Tropical Forest Foundation Indonesia. Indonesia; Member, Board of Directors Indonesia Ecolabel Institute.
Hasbie HASBILLAH has more than 30 years of experience in forest management, including planning, operations, environment, industry, and social and policy of natural and plantation forests in Indonesia, South East Asia, and the Pacific. He has conducted extensive fieldwork for planning and operational logging to implement Reduced Impact Logging (RIL). Hasbie has been lead auditor for both the International and National Standards for Sustainable Forest Management and Palm Oil Certification He is a RIL Carbon trainer who also conducts Assessment of High Conservation Value, High Carbon Stock and Climate Change. In the last ten years Hasbie, has pursued Forest Carbon accounting for natural forests.
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