About Madera International Environmental, Inc.
Madera International Environmental Inc., or M.I.E. was founded in 1996 by Madera International Inc., a public timber holding company traded on the NASDAQ exchange. Madera International Inc. has been in the forest products industry since 1961. It has always maintained the highest level of respect for our planet and more specifically for its home, the Amazon Rainforest.
Since its creation, Madera International Inc. has witnessed the slow destruction of the Amazon from practically their own backyard. Throughout the years they have practiced the strictest forest management systems and techniques such as selective extraction (i.e. harvesting by hand vs. machine) and the use of natural transportation floating logs downstream using nature's highway, the rivers. In addition, only mature trees and of only two species not less that 24 inches are harvested. The laws in these countries allow 16" diametric class as a minimum for cutting. Trees that do not make this minimum size for cutting are left to grow allowing the forest to regenerate. Each tree harvested is replaced with more than 200 seedlings produced in Madera's own environmental nurseries. For years Madera International Inc. has reforested the areas they have harvested. However, there remains a great deal of illegal destruction beyond their control and that of local governmental authorities. Time has shown that Madera International's efforts alone cannot stop, much less reverse the effects of this destruction. At today's pace of destruction and burning, experts assure that in another 100 years Amazonia will be completely wiped out. For this reason Madera International Environmental or M.I.E. was created. A company with a mission to preserve Amazonia, i.e. "the lungs of the earth".
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