The Minister of State in the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Pippa Hackett, launched a study from COFORD on voluntary private forest certification in Ireland. Forestry certification is a voluntary process for forest owners whereby forests are independently certified according to a defined set of metrics. The study establishes that fewer than 6% of private forests in Ireland are certified and provides a series of recommendations to help increase certification.

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