Ipe hardwood trees grow slowly, taking nearly a century to reach the dimensions necessary to produce the finest, most durable, timbers on the market today.
Eastern Bolivia is a place of family and forestry. The country is home to 3.7 million acres of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC®)-Certified forestland, making Bolivia the leader in sustainable forests among tropical countries. Those that call Bolivia “hogar” (home) have an innate connection to the natural environment, understanding how those resources are to be preserved for future generations.
Through a land-lease partnership with the Bolivian government, Jensen Outdoor manages over 2 million acres of dry-tropical forests in Eastern Bolivia. Through the FSC®-certification chain of custody process, we are able to track the exact tree and location from where it is sustainably felled to when it arrives in our distribution center in Virginia as a finished piece of furniture.
Jensen Outdoor was among the first outdoor furniture manufacturers to receive FSC Certification. Today, more than 380 million acres of forests worldwide have been independently certified, with the FSC® label carried on natural products 100% produced within the verified guidelines.
Jensen Outdoor has made an FSC®-Certified (Forest Stewardship Council) plan to rotate which areas of the forest are harvested every season. This ensures that the same plot of forest is not touched again before thirty years have passed, allowing new batches of mature Ipe trees to grow, contributing to forest diversity.
