Course: FSC Ecosystem Services
Soil Association
Food, Farming & HorticultureSustainabilityConservation & Wildlife
FSC Ecosystem Services Impact Demonstration for Forest Managers Course – 7-8 October 2025 (online – 12 hours across 2 days)
Are you managing an FSC certified forest and interested to make ecosystem service claims as well as timber claims? Or are you a forest manager interested in FSC certification, but you can’t justify the costs of certification from timber sales alone? Or are you interested to find out more about how a certification scheme has developed a procedure to support the validation and verification of ecosystem services?
Then consider registering for Soil Association Certification’s FSC Ecosystem Services training course. This course will explain the key requirements in the FSC procedure including impact demonstration, getting your claims validated & verified and managing any sponsorship that might be relevant.
The course is based on v2.0 of the FSC Ecosystem Services Procedure, which now includes 7 ecosystem service categories (biological conservation, carbon sequestration & storage, water services, soil conservation, recreational services, cultural practices & values and air quality) with an effective date of 1 July 2025.
The course will be run online and is open to global registrations, with the timetable based on GMT. There is no formal assessment for this course, however all participants will receive a training certificate issued by Soil Association Certification.
About Soil Association
The Soil Association is a charity working with everyone to transform the way we eat, farm, and care for our natural world.
We build real solutions from the ground up. For the last 75 years, we've worked with citizens,
farmers, policy makers and businesses, supporting them to explore the vital relationship
between the health of soil, plants, animals and people. Because the only way to solve the
issues we face is to understand that they are all connected - and that food, farming and
forestry are a vital part of the solution.
The Soil Association is a charity working with everyone to transform the way we eat, farm, and care for our natural world. We build real solutions from the ground up. For the last 75 years, we've worked with citizens, farmers, policy makers and businesses, supporting them to explore the vital relationship between the health of soil, plants, animals and people. Because the only way to solve the issues we face is to understand that they are all connected - and that food, farming and forestry are a vital part of the solution.
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