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About this Partnership
Forest Conservation
Xerox Corporation has invested $1 million in an innovative partnership with The Nature Conservancy to strengthen and advance practices used to conserve the world's forests. The investment—the largest Xerox has ever made in an environmental partnership—will develop science-based tools, practices and systems that the paper industry can draw upon to better understand and manage ecologically important forest land.
Forests around the world harbor a rich diversity of species and natural communities. For this reason, the way forests are managed and protected plays a determining role in The Nature Conservancy’s ability to reach its mission. The partnership with Xerox provides resources and builds relationships that help the Conservancy work with the forest products industry to ensure that productive forests also conserve biodiversity.
The Xerox partnership is focused on three high-leverage strategies in priority conservation areas.
Forest Data Center
Xerox’s contribution is being be used to complete and launch an online interactive database about ecologically important boreal forest areas in Canada, an important source of paper and wood and the largest block of contiguous intact forest left in the world. Users of this data center will be able to find out more about the forests’ species and ecological systems to help inform industry decisions and actions to conserve biodiversity.
Forestry Standards
Xerox’s support is helping The Nature Conservancy develop landscape planning projects jointly with paper companies in the United States. On-the-ground findings will help the Conservancy and its partners make recommendations to forestry certification bodies to ensure biodiversity conservation is fully included in international forestry standards. Xerox’s support will also bolster Conservancy efforts to maintain and increase the amount of forest areas certified as sustainably managed for both paper production and biodiversity.
Management Practices
Xerox’s support is helping paper suppliers in North America, Indonesia and Brazil work with the Conservancy to undertake biodiversity assessments on their lands. These assessments, combined with the Conservancy’s recommendations on biodiversity management practices, will allow companies and landowners to establish and manage their own forest conservation areas. Biodiversity management practices and conservation areas are factors evaluated under the major forestry certification standards.
About Xerox
Xerox Corporation is a nearly $16 billion global enterprise that helps businesses find better ways to work through innovative technology integrated with document-management services. Over the past 40 years, Xerox has demonstrated leadership in sustainability and citizenship by designing "waste-free" products built in "waste-free" plants, investing in innovation that delivers measurable benefits to the environment, supporting educational and community projects around the world, and many other integrated initiatives. Advancing the practice of sustainable forest management among Xerox paper suppliers is an important component of Xerox's own commitment to environmental protection.
Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Cachoeira River, Brazil; Marci Eggers/TNC. Yellow birch trees, Rhode Island; Mark Godfrey/TNC.
