The image of Sweden as a global sustainable forestry leader got shattered when scientists, forest experts and representatives from environmental NGOs from Russia, Finland and the UK visited threatened natural forests in Vildmarksriket (the Wilderness Empire) and Ore Skogsrike (Ore Forest Empire) in Dalarna in Sweden last week. The Swedish forests turned out to be…
The organization has orchestrated a number of campaigns with different targets, the most well-known being the campaign against IKEA’s destruction of old-growth forests in Carelia, north-western Russia.
An acute threat lies over the subalpine primeval forest in Änok – one of the country’s most beautiful river deltas. The Änok delta is a magnificent primeval forest landscape, unique on its own but also valuable as a part of a vast and intact wilderness. In Änok, the nature reserve Pärlälvens montane virgin forest…
