Sylva Nova was created by Pierre Hermans,
active in the forest sector since 1994.
Its name reflects its purpose: sustainable forest management (sylva), constantly evolving (nova).
A well-managed forest simultaneously achieves a number of functions: protecting the environment and biodiversity, regulating the climate, contributing to our health, providing wood, creating the landscape…; none of these functions takes precedence over the others – all are essential to human life and its balance.
In order to appreciate the full value of forests and to make them even stronger within the context of climactic urgency, Sylva Nova strongly recommends a management based on the long term, on respect for naturalness and on diversity.
Sylva Nova practices a non-invasive forest management, totally avoiding both clear cutting and establishing planting records, favoring permanent cover and irregular growth, protecting and completing natural regeneration, encouraging a diversity of species perfectly adapted to the soil and local conditions.
‘Follow nature’s course, complete and speed up its work’ is more than ever the Sylva Nova’s approach.
In the short or long-term, Sylva Nova carries out various missions involving temperate forests, mainly in Europe:
Sylva Nova works with both the private and public sectors: private and institutional forest owners, governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), international bodies, corporate sector, professional associations and think tanks…
Sylva Nova is characterized by its independence, its network of partners and contacts, its constantly-updated level of knowledge, its sense of ethics and its interest in geopolitical issues and international affairs related to the forest.
Development of medium or long-term forest management plans, complying with the strictest local regulations and sustainability standards while meeting the objectives and expectations of the owner.
End to end management from tree planting to the final use of the timber.
Rehabilitation of forest areas damaged by natural disasters or other events such as storms, fires, diseases, unsustainable woodland, pressure from wildlife…
Monitoring of and recommendations for the management of green areas with a forest profile such as private or public recreational forest areas, landscaped sites…
As an operational actor on the national and international scene, Sylva Nova actively contributes to restoring damaged forests and/or increasing the overall forest coverage. The plantations taken over by Sylva Nova are managed locally. They all respect the native species, the local best practices and are carried out with a view to optimizing biodiversity.
Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Italy, France, Iceland, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Ireland, Armenia, Ukraine, Czech Republic…
Reforest’Action is a B Corp-certified company created in 2010 and dedicated to preserve, restore and create forests in France and around the world, in response to the climate emergency and biodiversity loss. It raises awareness among as wide an audience as possible about the power of forests and the necessity of preserving them. It acts through preserving and restoring forests in France and across the world.
For many years, Sylva Nova has been working with Reforest’Action for the analysis, selection and monitoring of various projects mainly undertaken at European level. Sylva Nova also provides its technical expertise in the domain of agroforestry projects.
For more information: www.reforestaction.com
“To empower people of all ages to make a difference for all living things”, this is the motto of the Jane Goodall Institute Belgium. The Institute concentrates its efforts on planting forests in Belgium and Africa, promoting young people’s initiatives to make positive changes for our communities, animals, and the environment and on supporting projects which protect wild chimpanzees and other threatened species, as well as the habitats they live in.
Sylva Nova has been selected as a reference partner by the Jane Goodall Institute Belgium to establish and implement reforestation projects in Belgium.
For more information: www.janegoodall.be
Today, companies and institutions fulfill more than a simple economic function. At the heart of the societal challenge, they are aware of the role they also have to play for the benefit of their ecological, social or cultural environment.
Sylva Nova provides them with an environmental pragmatic action: the sponsorship of some reforestation and forest restoration projects. Sylva Nova is in charge of the selection of sites with added value, of the management of financing, of the operational management of the plantation and of the project monitoring.
Sylva Nova willingly shares its operational expertise and its continuous apprenticeship in various consultancy missions and studies allied to the challenges facing forests:
Participation in the different activities of the ‘Think Forest’ think tank with a scientific orientation. Its aim is to give political decision-makers information allowing them to position forests and wood as a key natural resource to be protected and promoted.
Member of the multi-disciplinary group for forest study, forest and woods heritage (Paris 4 Sorbonne).
Membership in this network with the aim of contributing with its members to a transition towards a more sustainable society and economy.
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The FSC® (Forest Stewardship Council®) certification is the strictest standard that confirms a sustainable and balanced management of the forest. Thanks to the guarantee it gives to wood buyers, it also provides easier access to the most demanding local and international markets. |
Group certification allows several forest owners to be covered by a single certificate. This enables them to share certification costs and simplify administrative management.
Sylva Nova takes on the comprehensive management of the certification process:
This FSC® group is open to owners whose forest is regularly managed by Sylva Nova and to external owners simply wanting to acquire the certification for their forest(s).
To find out more about this label: www.fsc.be and www.fsc.be