APFCertifica is a web based platform for forest management certification groups that allows for real time managment for diferent standards (FSC and PEFC).

The platform implements the principles that over a broad range of issues, from maintaining high conservation values to community relations and workers’ rights, as well as monitoring the environmental and social impacts of the forest management.

Forest Management certification covers the certification of actual forests. This involves a voluntary process whereby an independent third party (the “certifier”) assesses the quality of forest management against a set of requirements (“standards”) predetermined by a public or private certification organization, as a way of informing consumers about the sustainability of the forests from which wood and other forest products were produced.

Forest management certification standards are developed in an open, transparent process, and are adapted to local context to reflect different forest types and cultural considerations in different regions of the world.