Ensuring Sustainability in Forests Through the Participation of Locals: Implications for Extension Education

SWOT Matrix (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) of a cooperative focused on logging and non-timber management in the Amazon

“…The economic potential of forests has been constantly used as an argument for both those who advocate using this argument to devastate it and to preserve it (Marcondes, 2011). It turns out that in the midst of this extremist and polarized vision there is a middle ground, where it is possible that natural resources may be explored without the need for destruction, acting in line with sustainable development (Baig et al, 2019). According to Pereira and Calgaro (2016), this mistaken dilemma has been treated by researchers with caution, and lately, studies aimed at the consortium between conservation and economic use of the forest have been assertively disseminated, so that exploring logging and non-timber forest resources is feasible, relieving the impacts suffered by an exploration without proper care (Brito et al, 2007).…”