A regulatory term referring to forest predominantly composed of trees established through natural regeneration.
Naturally regenerating forest is part of the formal vocabulary used in traceability, origin evidence, and deforestation-related due diligence. For this glossary, the key point is understanding how the source defines the term and where that definition sits within broader compliance or data requirements.
Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products
forest predominantly composed of trees established through natural regeneration; it includes any of the following: (a) forests for which it is not possible to distinguish whether planted or naturally regenerated; (b) forests with a mix of naturally regenerated native tree species and planted or seeded trees, and where the naturally regenerated trees are expected to constitute the major part of the growing stock at stand maturity; (c) coppice from trees originally established through natural regeneration; (d) naturally regenerated trees of introduced species;
Reference: Article 2, point 9
In practice, this term matters when companies collect, structure, verify, or communicate sustainability data within traceability, origin evidence, and deforestation-related due diligence.
For Minespider, naturally regenerating forest is not just descriptive language. It is a modeling term that affects how sustainability, emissions, lifecycle, or product information should be captured and compared.