By joining the LFOA the members by signature agree to the following principles for action:
Did you know?
Majority of the forest owners regained their properties from 1993 to 1995. it means that majority of the forest owners today have 13-15 years of forest management experience. During these years the level of knowledge on forestry as well as the attitude towards forest property has improved considerably. The data provided by the State Forest Service states that illegal felling has decreased during the past 7 years 10 times, and today constitutes a non-significant part of the total felling volumes in Latvia - less than 1%.
- Forestry is entrepreneurship aimed at gaining profit from managing forest land. All the other goals of forest management are also respected.
- Latvian Forest Owners Association is working towards:
- Promoting sustainable and economically efficient forest management development in Latvia;
- Encouraging revision of and improvement of the regulatory acts that hinder forest owner to take economically-grounded forestry management decisions;
- Encouraging governmental bodies to simplify procedures for issuing different permissions for forest management, including forest establishment;
- Achieving established and working compensation mechanism where a forest owner receives based on marked principles and economically grounded compensations for management restrictions;
- Supporting the efforts to review the forestry related tax policy;
- Encouraging the increase of forest owners competence and knowledge about forestry, legal and economical aspects;
- Supporting implementation of modern and effective technologies in forestry;
- Promoting positive image of a forest owner in society;
- Effective representation of Latvian forest owners' opinion in Latvia and internationally.
