Protect the Forest & Friends of the Earth Sweden – Press release – February 23rd, 2011 The Swedish Forest Agency has recently granted permission to log pristine subalpine forest in a vast roadless wilderness. Protect the Forest and Friends of the Earth Sweden now condemn the Swedish forest policy and the Swedish forestry model. The two…
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and its members, certifiers and suppliers must commit to ending the certification of primary forest timbers, falsely implying it is sustainable to log hundreds of year old trees for toilet paper, lawn furniture and other consumer items. Please participate in EI’s on-going global campaign to end primary forest logging, and…
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and its members, certifiers and suppliers must commit to ending the certification of primary forest timbers, falsely implying it is sustainable to log hundreds of year old trees for toilet paper, lawn furniture and other consumer items. Please participate in EI’s on-going global campaign to end primary forest logging, and…
A European trio — Sweden, Finland and Austria — is leading a push for an accounting trick that would let rich countries cut down as many trees as they wanted, without having to report the increased climate damage. If they succeed, it could spell disaster for forests, the people who rely on them, and the…
Deep wheel tracks in the soil. Photo: Olli Manninen/Protect the Forest 2010. A logging scandal. This is what the organization Protect the Forest thinks about the logging conducted by forest companies Bergvik and Stora Enso at Älgsjön, in Värmland County in Sweden. The organization claims that the forest company Stora Enso violates the Swedish…
