Tigerwood Guyana Incorporated (TGI) has joined forces with the Iwokrama Centre, which manages the nearly one million acre Iwokrama Forest in central Guyana to show how tropical forests can be sustainably used to provide benefits to local, national and international communities.

The new company, Iwokrama Sustainable Timber Incorporated, says it will ensure that no logs are exported from the area, and that value-added activities are undertaken, including processing timber into hewn wood – creating more local employment.

TGI said it was an “exciting opportunity to demonstrate to the world that through the sustainable harvesting of a limited number of trees, forests can be sustained while creating employment”.