Press release from Protect the Forest Sweden 2012-04-26 Photo: Klas Ancker/Friends of the Earth, Sweden – Protest campaign launched today. The environmental organization Protect the Forest Sweden is launching a campaign today to shed light on IKEA’s systematic logging of old-growth forest and other forests with high conservation value in Russian Karelia. As part…
200-600 year old trees stacked at a clear-cutt of a primeval forest in northern Karelia 2011 – Photo: Protect the Forest Massive Cutbacks in Karelia’s Nature Conservation Policy Would Threaten Europe’s Natural Heritage Some of the most important landscapes of Europe’s high-conservation value forests are located in the Russian republic of Karelia, where vast, intact areas…
An 800 hectares big clear-cut, in a former natural forest landscape in the north of Värmland, Sweden, made in the 2000s. Stora Enso has on Bergvik land placed several large clearings adjacent to each other that create this huge clear-cut. Photo: Viktor Säfve / Protect the Forest 2011 Due to intensive forestry, the natural taiga…
– From natural forests to industrial landscapes Introduction In an international context, Sweden has an undeservedly good reputation for sustainable forestry. Countries buying wood and paper products from Sweden have been misled by different environmental certification guarantees. The concept of replanting forests after logging operations, which is the case for Sweden, has been associated…
Photo: Olli Manninen/Protect the Forest The organization Protect the Forest welcomes the extensive report released today by the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC), Sweden’s oldest and largest environmental organization. The report is titled “Under the Cover of the Swedish Forestry Model” and looks deep into the myth about the “environmentally friendly forest products”…
