Global Forest Coalition: In March 2010, the European Commission launched an EU-wide consultation to find out whether the EU should increase its efforts to protect forests under a changing climate. The main challenges facing Europe’s forests were set out in a Green Paper on forest protection and climate change. The Global Forest Coalition formulated a…
Last week an international forest conference, PRIFOR 2010, was held in Sundsvall, Sweden. The conference gathered around 200 forest scientists to contribute with scientific strategies to prevent the ongoing degradation of northern natural forests. The scientists state that saving biodiversity requires protection of more old-growth forests, at the same time as environmental consideration in managed…
ACTION ALERT: Save Bialowieza Forest, Europe’s Last Primeval Temperate Forest By Forests.org, a project of Ecological Internet w/John Seed and the Rainforest Information Centre. TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:http://forests.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=poland_bialowieza_forest Ask the Polish government to stop exploitation of the primeval Bialowieza Forest. Bialowieza Forest is on the verge of ultimate devastation caused by the state foresters and…
Parts of the last intact wilderness area of north-west Europe stretches along the Swedish mountain chain. These large forests have still not been affected by the modern clear-cut forestry. The montane forest in Sweden has unique natural values. Most of the country’s natural forests have been replaced by the industrialized forestry’s biologically impoverished plantations. The…
Swedish folk singer Esbjörn Hazelius, reggae artist General Knas, the punk band Invasionen, the poet Bengt Berg, the sculpter Maria Westerberg and many other artists, scientists and nature conservationists… Everyone is coming to the Forest Festival in Sweden on July 14 to 18. The event is a manifestation for the protection of old-growth forests and…
