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Forestry activities GRI 304-3
The forestry activities must supply Bracell’s industrial units with high-quality eucalyptus at competitive costs, ensuring the business’ economic viability. Concurrently, the company watches over the plantations’ social and environmental aspects, from which it extracts the raw material for cellulose production. Bracell attests and is committed to not operate on peat soils, an unusual category in Brazilian territory1. The company only uses previously planted areas with other crops
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Surface mapping, organic matter and water stocks in peatlands of the Serra do Espinhaço meridional - Brazil. Rev. Bras. Ciênc. Solo vol.37 no.5 Viçosa Sept./Oct. 2013. Available at: <https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-06832013000500004>. Acessed on em 08/31/2020.
(therefore, anthropized areas) for eucalyptus planting and is totally against deforestation and burning, a guideline that is part of its Sustainability Policy and that is also applied to its chain of supplies. More than 30% of the Bracell’s managed lands are areas of environmental conservation (native vegetation, legal reserve, and permanent conservation). The company’s eucalyptus planting are located as follows: in Bahia - covering 31 municipalities in the North and Agreste regions of the state and Recôncavo Baiano; in São Paulo - in 72 municipalities in the Midwest. Bracell also operates through forestry partnerships with local farmers (leasing). The soil use information for Bracell properties is georeferenced and plotted on maps, including the Permanent Preservation Areas, Legal Reserve, infrastructure, water resources, and other uses, as well as the area of occupation by the eucalyptus culture. Cartography activities also cover the mapping of areas of unique cultural and social significance.
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