Peru’s Amazon rainforest is being destroyed because the timber industry only uses 3% of trees per hectare. Therefore, timber companies cannot be established in the forest, and 97% of trees are unused. These trees are eventually burned to clear land for formal and informal agriculture. This article proposes to use more trees given that records of the last 40 years show that all tree species can be used for some purpose if they are processed appropriately with simple sawmill and drying techniques. The analysis shows that if less than 7% of the available trees is used, it will be financially and economically feasible to establish primary industries in the forest itself. This creates permanent job positions and enables a sustainable use and renovation of the forest; thus ensuring the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, which does not allow growing any foreign tree species.

Peru’s Amazon rainforest is being destroyed because the timber industry only uses 3% of trees per hectare. Therefore, timber companies cannot be established in the forest, and 97% of trees are unused. These trees are eventually burned to clear land for formal and informal agriculture. This article proposes to use more trees given that records of the last 40 years show that all tree species can be used for some purpose if they are processed appropriately with simple sawmill and drying techniques. The analysis shows that if less than 7% of the available trees is used, it will be financially and economically feasible to establish primary industries in the forest itself. This creates permanent job positions and enables a sustainable use and renovation of the forest; thus ensuring the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, which does not allow growing any foreign tree species.

Peru’s Amazon rainforest is being destroyed because the timber industry only uses 3% of trees per hectare. Therefore, timber companies cannot be established in the forest, and 97% of trees are unused. These trees are eventually burned to clear land for formal and informal agriculture. This article proposes to use more trees given that records of the last 40 years show that all tree species can be used for some purpose if they are processed appropriately with simple sawmill and drying techniques. The analysis shows that if less than 7% of the available trees is used, it will be ?nancially and economically feasible to establish primary industries in the forest itself. This creates permanent job positions and enables a sustainable use and renovation of the forest; thus ensuring the preservation of the Amazon rainforest, which does not allow growing any foreign tree species.

La gran diferencia entre los bosques tropicales amazónicos y los bosques de climas templados y fríos es que en los primeros existen miles de especies de árboles que conviven en un medio ecológico complejo y variado, mientras que en los segundos hay pocas especies que forman bosques homogéneos y fáciles de manejar. La gran variedad de especies forestales presentes en los bosques tropicales inicialmente se considera como un obstáculo, esto debido a su complicada extracción, lo cual, junto con el uso de maderas con propiedades disímiles y el tratamiento industrial que esto implica, lleva a afirmar de forma equivocada que este bosque no sirve, especialmente porque la mayoría de las especies tropicales son muy diferentes a las de los bosques templados, por lo tanto, se desprecian y se destruyen. En realidad, esa gran diversidad arbórea se convierte en una bendición al tener árbol...