📋 Tender Overview
The initiative, in which CITEmadera Lima, CITEforestal Maynas, and CITEproductivo Madre de Dios participated, marks a step towards improving the traceability of wood products and promoting trade.Within the framework of inter-institutional collaboration to improve traceability and control of the wood production chain, the Forest and Wildlife Resources Supervision Agency (OSINFOR) and the Forestry Wood Network, made up of CITEmadera Lima, CITEforestal Maynas, and CITEproductivo Madre de Dios of ITP-Produce, carried out a pilot project in Madre de Dios to incorporate the use of two technological tools to facilitate the recognition of wood species during supervisions.
This joint effort, which had the logistical support of the United States Forest Service and the advanced technology of World Forest ID, aims to strengthen the capacity for forest supervision in the country. With the incorporation of the Xylotron application and the DART-TOFMS software, which allow for the precise identification of wood species, even when it comes to processed wood, the aim is to strengthen the traceability and legality of wood products in the first stage of the production chain. That is, from the supervisions carried out to the enabling titles.
The Xylotron is a portable device that captures images of wood samples and compares them to a database of species, facilitating their precise identification. The DART-TOFMS, on the other hand, is a mass spectrometer that identifies species through the chemical profile of the samples, providing invaluable scientific support to combat illegal wood trade. As part of the project, OSINFOR forest supervisors were trained in the use of both tools. During the pilot activity, OSINFOR supervisors together with professionals from the Wood Forestry Network, collected anatomical and dendrological samples of species of interest and controversy, to identify them with new technologies.
