Important message in Deforestation book Deforestation: Why YOU Need to Stop it NOW, by L. F. Collingwood The essential message of this book is that we, as consumers, need to take personal responsibility for deforestation, and all other environmental destruction and pollution, because no-one else will if we don’t. While collective responsibility is…
“The Swedish forestry industry organization Skogsindustrierna, where the companies Sveaskog, Stora Enso, SCA and Holmen skog are members, have published a website: protectedforests.com, with a map of what they claim is protected forest in Sweden. On the website they claim that as much as 25% of the Swedish forest are protected, and they also claim…
IKEA and Swedwood agree to meet with environmental organizations to discuss the loggings in Russian Karelia. Since this spring, IKEA and Swedwood have been severely criticized fortheir logging in Russian Karelia by Protect the Forest and otherenvironmental organizations, including the Karelian organization SPOK.Read more about the criticism here (http://www.protecttheforest.se/ikea). The campaign has grown andgained support…
Press release from Protect the Forest and Nature and Youth Sweden 2012-04-29 Large protest in eight Swedish IKEA stores Yesterday, on Saturday the 28th, the environmental organizations Protect the Forest and Nature and Youth Sweden protested at eight different IKEA stores around Sweden. The customers were told about IKEA’s logging of old-growth forest in Russia…
Threat against 1,3 million hectares in Russian Karelia Old-growth forest in Russian Karelia. September 2011. Photo: Robert Svensson The government of the Russian republic of Karelia has recently proposed to cancel the previous agreement for protection of high conservation value forests. The proposed changes in the land use plan would threaten more than…
