Eucalyptus: Planted Forests, World Forests & Global Timber Supply (II)

30,000,000 new "invasive alien weed" trees... what a "catastrophe"... or not...

Gustavo Iglesias Trabado Contact GIT Forestry Consulting SL / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
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Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, International Forestry Consultant, CEO GIT Forestry Consulting / Analysis of Impacts Eucalyptus Planted Forests and Eucalyptus Timber Production / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Director Ejecutivo de GIT Forestry Consulting / Analisis de Impactos del establecimiento de bosques cultivados de Eucalipto y de la Produccion Maderera con Eucalipto / Contact GIT Forestry Consulting SL / Geschäftsführer GIT Forstwirtschaft Beratung / Analyse der Auswirkungen Eucalyptus gepflanzte Wälder und Eukalyptusholz Produktion / Consultant en foresterie internationale, chef de la direction de consultation en foresterie GIT / Analyse des Eucalyptus Impacts des forêts plantées et la production des bois d'eucalyptus / 国际林业顾问,总裁GIT的林业咨询/分析的影响桉树人工林和桉树木材生产 / 国際林業コンサルタントは、CEOのGITに林業コンサルティング/インパクトのユーカリの分析は、林とユーカリの木材生産を植え / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro and Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
It is spring again in the Northern Hemisphere, and with it arrives the main tree planting season for 2011 in some of those areas of the world that, as Galicia in Northwestern Spain, devote significant annual public and private investments to the traditional cyclic production of organic, sustainable & renewable primary resources: timber crops.

After a historical top timber harvest during 2008 reaching 8 million cubic meters, year 2009 had seen a contraction of activity in which the effects of increased stormwood availability (Event Klaus) & the general effects of the global financial crisis and its aftermath on Spanish economy were two of the key factors. Year 2010 however was a recovery year for timber harvests, and the awaited start of the reactivation of local and regional timber trade was coincident with the entry of a noticeable amount of standing timber volumes, existent thanks to an ongoing for decades effort for the creation of planted forests, into the "harvestable age class".

 Galicia, Timber Reserve of Spain, Sustainable Source of Wood Products from Eucalypt and Pine Planted Forests produces 50% of Spanish yearly timber harvests / Galicia, la Reserva Forestal de España, es fuente sostenible de recursos madereros a partir de bosques cultivados de pino y eucalipto que generan el 50% de la produccion de madera española / Galiza, a madeira da Reserva da Espanha, fonte sustentável de produtos de madeira de eucalipto plantadas florestas de pinheiros e produz 50% dos espanhóis colheita de madeira por ano / Galizien, Timber Reserve von Spanien, nachhaltige Quelle von Holzprodukten aus Eukalyptus und Kiefer gepflanzte Wälder produziert 50% der spanischen jährlichen Ernten Holz / Galice, du bois de réserve de l'Espagne, source durable de produits de bois d'eucalyptus et de pin forêts plantées produit 50% de bois par an en espagnol récoltes / 加利西亚,木材储备西班牙,可持续来源的木材产品从桉树和松树人工林生产木材50%的西班牙每年的收成 / ガリシアは、スペインの木材保護区、ユーカリ、パイン植林からの木材製品の持続可能なソーススペイン年間木材の収穫の50%を生産している / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro & Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo

Fig 1: Galicia is the Timber Reserve of Spain, and the source for 50% of Spanish yearly sustainable roundwood supply. A 95% of Galician yearly timber harvest is sourced from planted forests belonging to 600,000 families of Galician people who invest in sustainable natural resource production. A larger version of this graphic summary is available from GIT Forestry Consulting upon request (just contact us).


As a result, dozens of thousands of Galician family economies associated to tree crops cashed once more on their private investments in timber crops during 2010, and, after injecting part of that cash into the rural economies of the country, contributing once more to rural development, reserved part of their income to, once more, renew the sustainable production cycle of organic fibers that will become an array of different renewable and recyclable timber products in the next 10 to 30 years, while their act as carbon sinks, recycling solar energy and one of the concerning elements increasingly emitted by human activity worldwide into natural products.

Understorey of an Eucalyptus globulus coastal rainforest: something grows under Eucalyptus / Sotobosque de un bosque lluvioso costero de Eucalyptus globulus: hay vida bajo los eucaliptos / Gepflanzte Wälder in Galicien, Spanien: Unterwuchs eines Eucalyptus globulus Küstenregenwald: Etwas wächst unter Eucalyptus, was beweist, Eukalyptus Vergiftung Böden ist ein Mythos / Les forêts plantées en Galice, en Espagne: sous-étage d'un Eucalyptus globulus forêt pluviale côtière: quelque chose se développe sous Eucalyptus, prouvant eucalyptus sols empoisonnement est un mythe / ガリシア、スペインの人工林は:ユーカリのUnderstoreyは、沿岸の熱帯雨林をグロブラス:何かが中毒土壌ユーカリを証明する、ユーカリの下で成長神話がある / 人工林在加利西亚,西班牙:一蓝桉桉林下沿海热带雨林:桉树下成长的东西,证明桉树中毒土壤是一个神话 / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro & Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo

Fig 2: Example of two generations of Galician tree growers assessing the performance of their Eucalyptus planted forests, established by private initiative in that area the Iberian Peninsula during a trend lasting 130 years, source of sustainable timber harvests for diverse end uses since establishment. (Click image to enlarge).

Apparently, during late 2010 and ongoing 2011 the demand for planting stock has skyrocketed compared to previous years, particularly for the main commercial timber producing species for a range of different industrial lines and which are at once generators of income to some 600.000 families of tree growers: several types of pine trees & several types of eucalypt trees. It seems very likely that Galician tree growers have decided to invest over 40 million € of their own during 2011 in eucalypt tree planting, which seems to be a blooming privately funded sustainable agrobusiness for some decades now, to the point that eucalypt tree planting has not been promoted by the injection of public subsidies in Galicia for over 20 years, while, during the same period, eucalypt logs harvested in Galicia have managed to become a 25% of total yearly harvested timber production for the whole of Spain.

Some of these magnitudes seem to have also excited the minds of an overwhelmingly minoritary amount of Galician & non Galician native peoples who, for an equivalent period of time, have been devoting their efforts and the money of donations & public subsidies to keep an artificially created social conflict alive: the random public promotion of a handful of selectively chosen options among an array of several dozen local crops based on the cultivation of non native plant & animal species adopted by Galician people along centuries as "the source of all evils". Nothing new, as that one is also a long time running business delivering wages or profit to an insignificant percent of the population of Spain, without it meaning a remotely significant injection of capital into the critically important populations of the regional rural economies, whose members are, by living in 2000 year old human-created landscapes, the only ones able to preserve them and/or modify them, and with them, their 2000 year old human-modified inherited biodiversity.


 Galicia, Spain: Sustainable Production of Eucalyptus Wood from Planted Forests for over 130 years of continued cultivation / Galicien, Spanien: Nachhaltige Produktion von Eukalyptusholz aus angepflanzten Wäldern für über 130 Jahre fortgesetzt Anbau / Galicia, Espanja: Kestävä tuotanto eukalyptuspuuta peräisin istutusmetsiä yli 130 vuotta jatkuvan viljelyn / Galice, Espagne: la production durable d'Eucalyptus bois des forêts plantées depuis plus de 130 ans de culture continue / 加利西亚,西班牙:可持续生产从桉树人工林木材超过130年的持续培养 / ガリシア、スペイン:継続的な栽培の130年以上に植えられた林からユーカリ木材の持続可能な生産 / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro & Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo

Fig 3: Up to five generations of Galician tree growers have, by private initiative, been continuously cultivating Eucalyptus planted forests for commercial timber production for at least 130 years, being one of the longest running existing examples worldwide of the long term sustainability of eucalypt tree farming, as the same or improved variations of the original crop management systems remain, in spite of recent rural abandonment, yet common in the same areas where they were first implemented. (Click image to enlarge).

So, a "30 million extra weeds" catchphrase, associated to false concepts, half truths, exaggerated non generalized truths, or plain lies was concocted once more to attempt a justification of the existence of non existent generalized potential environmental effects, instantly classified as negative environmental impacts by a minority, be them positive or negative and regardless of their existence, their spatial or temporal degree of existence when and if they exist, or their degree of reversibility, all these standard concepts applied worldwide for serious environmental impact assessment.

Not around here, possibly, and excepting an interesting amount of excellent individuals in scientific or academic spheres of environmental sciences, thanks to the low generalized ethical standards and low scientific and technical performance of a minority of those first enrolling in disciplines related to ecology, plant biology and biodiversity conservation and later trying to apply that knowledge to the real world out there... without having a good general picture of how the real world out there has worked for centuries.


 Galicia, Spain: the Potential Environmental Impact of Planting 30 Million exotic Eucalyptus trees is Statistically Insignificant for Gaia or the Ecosystem in the broader sense / Galice, Espagne: l'impact environnemental potentiel de la plantation d'arbres exotiques à 30 millions d'Eucalyptus est statistiquement non significatif pour Gaia ou l'écosystème au sens large / Galicien, Spanien: die möglichen Umweltauswirkungen der Pflanzung 30 Millionen exotischen Eukalyptusbäume ist statistisch nicht signifikant für Gaia oder das Ökosystem im weiteren Sinne / Galicia, Espanja: mahdollisia ympäristövaikutuksia Planting 30 miljoonaa eksoottisia eukalyptuspuita on tilastollisesti merkityksetön ja ​​Gaia tai ekosysteemin laajemmassa merkityksessä / 加利西亚,西班牙:潜在的30万外来种植桉树对环境的影响统计学盖亚或生态系统在更广泛的意义上无意义 / ガリシアは、スペイン:30万エキゾチックなユーカリの木を植えるの潜在的な環境負荷統計ガイアや生態系のためのより広い意味では重要ではありません / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro & Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo
Fig 4: What do 30 Million Planted Eucalyptus trees mean? A Graphic Comparison of Land Covered with Eucalyptus Natural & Planted Forests in the World (2011). (Click image to enlarge). A larger version is available from GIT Forestry Consulting upon request (just contact us). [Para ver una versión en español, haga click aquí].


Since British chemist James Lovelock and US microbiologist Lynn Margulis coined the Gaia Hypothesis & Theory back in the 1970's, the jump from science to social activism in what to environmentalism refers has been steady, sprouting philosophies first, creeds later, and business infrastructures associated to the previous in the end, totally, partially or fractionally inspired by the concept of "the big ecosystem made of tiny ecosystems full of biodiversity we must preserve in their integrity at all costs", which, for many misguided, forgot to include men and human activities as part of it, or that for a minority of other misguided, included both of these but under a veil of hate and an elitist gambit to a neo-primitivism that the majority of such minority has never practiced, and will never do.

The question of the importance of biodiversity and ecosystem function preservation as keystone to attempt securing the survival of the species (HUMAN species) in the longer term is beyond reasonable discussion. But what some frequently forget, or simply refuse to understand, is that the key human activities that could pose a risk to the survival of the species cannot be assessed but when seeing the whole picture of the ecosystem, "at Gaia level", so to speak.

And, using the telescope for second, what can we see (Fig. 4) when we look at the meaning of "planting 30 million trees" at the only reasonable level as to assess the global importance of any potential environmental impact generated or to be generated by those trees? That a broad initial estimation of the level of significance of any potential negative environmental impact generated by the cultivation of 30 million eucalypt trees in Galicia is... "very sorry, insignificant for the ecosystem".

Now, if those same 30 million planted trees can eco-efficiently generate organic, renewable and recyclable materials, as timber products are... built upon non pollutant solar energy while removing carbon from the atmosphere... which are at once suitable for a responsible use by the human being, including you, me, Dr. Margulis, Dr. Lovelock, the 600,000 Galician families who grow the trees, up to 3,000,000 Galician people who use the products & services generated by these or other trees... or any of the 3,000,000,000 extra human beings predicted to walk on the surface of the planet in 40 years (less than 1 harvest cycle for some tree crops) and who will demand those same natural products being generated by the planted trees as we speak... if those 30 million trees I repeat, are not of your taste... that is also irrelevant for the ecosystem. But it is quite likely that your grandsons will also say "thank you for helping avoid the catastrophe" around year 2050 to those planting them today and in the incoming years between now and then.


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XIII World Forestry Congress Planted Forests Session / Contact GIT Forestry Consulting / Contact Eucalyptologics / Contacto GIT Forestry Consulting / Contacto Eucalyptologics / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro, Javier Folgueira Lozano y Asociados / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo



GIT Forestry Planted Forests Map: Eucalyptus cultivated forests worldwide Map 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 / Eucalyptus cultivation map / Eucalypt forests in the world / Mapa de plantaciones de eucalipto en el mundo / Mapa de cultivo de eucalipto en el mundo / GIT metsätalousministeriö istutusmetsiä Kartta: Eukalyptus viljelymetsiä maailmanlaajuisesti Kartta 2008, 2009, 2010 ja 2011 / eukalyptuksen viljelyyn kartta / Eucalypt metsien maailma / GIT forêts forêts plantées Carte: les forêts d'eucalyptus cultivés dans le monde Plan 2008, 2009, 2010 et 2011 / Plan de la culture des forêts d'eucalyptus Eucalyptus / dans le monde / GIT Forstwirtschaft gepflanzte Wälder Karte: Eukalyptus bewirtschafteten Wäldern weltweit Karte 2008, 2009, 2010 und 2011 / Eukalyptus Anbau Karte / Eukalyptuswälder in der Welt / GIT skogsbruk planterad skog Karta: Eucalyptus odlade skogar över hela världen Map 2008, 2009, 2010 och 2011 / Eucalyptus odling karta / Eucalypt skogar i världen / GIT的林业人工林地图:世界地图桉树种植森林的2008年,2009年,2010年和2011 /桉树种植在世界地图/桉树林/ GITに林業植林地図:ユーカリ栽培林地図2008年、2009年、2010年と2011年/ユーカリ栽培マップ/ユーカリの森の世界で世界的に/ GIT forestali Piantati Foreste Map: foreste di eucalipti coltivati ​​in tutto il mondo Map 2008, 2009, 2010 e 2011 / map coltivazione di eucalipto / foreste di eucalipto nel mondo / GIT Bosbouw aangeplante bossen Kaart: Eucalyptus gecultiveerde bossen wereldwijd Kaart 2008, 2009, 2010 en 2011 / Eucalyptus teelt kaart / Eucalyptus bossen in de wereld / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado y Dennis Wilstermann / GIT Forestry Consulting - Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Lugo, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics - Information Resources on Eucalyptus Cultivation Around the World - Recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo



Eucalyptus roundwood pulp paper data for Brazil / Charta Eucalyptica Brasiliensis 2008 / Eucalyptus in Brazil, forestry statistics 2008 / ABRAF Anuario Estatistico 2008 / ABRAF Statistic Yearbook 2008 / ABRAF - Associaciao Brasileira de Produtores de Florestas Plantadas / STCP Engenheria de Projetos Ltda / DC10 Comunicaçao / Gustavo Iglesias Trabado, Roberto Carballeira Tenreiro & Javier Folgueira Lozano / GIT Forestry Consulting SL, Consultoría y Servicios de Ingeniería Agroforestal, Galicia, España, Spain / Eucalyptologics, information resources on Eucalyptus cultivation around the world / Eucalyptologics, recursos de informacion sobre el cultivo del eucalipto en el mundo



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