The Panamazónico Social Forum (FOSPA) will be held in the city of Mocoa, Colombia, on the 13-16th of November 2020. It was supposed to be held on the 22-25th of March 2020 but is postponed till November due to COVID-19. Mocoa is located in the Amazon rainforest region of Colombia. In March 2017, a large…
Forest with wood anemones (Anemone nemorosa). Foto: Birgitta Tulin. Today, the 21st of March, is the United Nations’ International Day for Forests. The forest is home to about 80 percent of the world’s terrestrial species. The forests comprise over 60,000 known tree species. Deforestation continues at an alarming rate, causing large emissions of greenhouse gases.…
Logged woodland key habitat in what was proposed to become a nature reserve close to the lake Risten in the municipality of Åtvidaberg, Sweden. The logging was conducted by Sweden’s largest FSC certified forest owner association, Södra. Photo: Mikael Schulin. Protect the Forest, Greenpeace Sweden, Fern, Biofuelwatch, Robin Wood and Global Forest Coalition wrote that…
The monoculture pine plantation in Kachung. Native species are cleared to make way for large tracts of single species pine and eucalypt. The Swedish Energy Agency stops purchasing carbon credits from the Norwegian forestry company Green Resources. The carbon offset project consists of large-scale pine plantations in Kachung in Uganda, which have caused environmental degradation and…
A clear-cut in Sweden. Photo: Agnetha Lundberg/Swedish Association for Nature Photographers. Sweden presents itself as a global torchbearer on the environment, but its forest policy is wreaking havoc. The EU must act to stop it, say five NGOs from different EU countries. Sweden is consistently ranked near or at the top of the world’s most…
