International Paper has worked alongside the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) since 2020 to develop bird-focused management recommendations for private forest landowners, including special practices landowners can employ to ensure habitat is maintained for recovery of at-risk bird species specifically the Swallow-tailed Kite.
International Paper engages in strategic collaborations to help advance our progress toward our target to conserve and restore 1 million acres of ecologically significant forestland by 2030.
Following a growing customer demand for certified products, we formed Certified Forest Management LLC in 2012. CFM is our own FSC forest management group, which provides a cost-effective option for small, private landowners to become FSC certified.
Forests cover more than 750 million acres in the U.S., about one-third of the country’s landmass. They represent the country’s largest terrestrial carbon sink, continuously taking carbon out of the atmosphere and storing it in trees.
International Paper purchases approximately 52 million tons of virgin wood, approximately four million tons of fiber fuel and approximately five million tons of recovered fiber annually for our manufacturing.
International Paper, along with seven other generous donors, partnered with the N.C. Coastal Land Trust to fund the purchase of 265 acres along 1.1 miles of the Cape Fear River in Bladen County.
With the recent announcement of seven new grants totaling $2.4 million awarded with support through the Forestlands Stewards partnership, International Paper and the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation are expanding