In Brazil, the company uses fast-growing soft wood from its managed forests, planted on former barren savannah, and maintains its own tree nurseries. Seedlings are continually planted out to replace each row trees felled: a sustainable ecological cycle. Over a million young trees of type Pinus caribaea are planted out each year on a total area of some 100 square kilometres, thousands of kilometres from the endangered Amazon rainforests.
The Faber-Castell forests and factories have been certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC). The FSC is a committe of the world's most powerful forestry experts, including organizations such as Greenpeace and WWF.
