180 000 petition for IKEA to stop logging old-growth forest As reported earlier this year by both Swedish and German public television and environmental NGO:s, intact primeval forests are being logged by Ikea in Russian Karelia, which has led to an international outrage against the furniture giant. On Friday, Protect the Forest handed over a petition with…
“The Swedish forestry industry organization Skogsindustrierna, where the companies Sveaskog, Stora Enso, SCA and Holmen skog are members, have published a website: protectedforests.com, with a map of what they claim is protected forest in Sweden. On the website they claim that as much as 25% of the Swedish forest are protected, and they also claim…
At first glance, the map on the left hand side, which is from the website: protectedforests.com seems to show that almost all forests in Sweden are protected. When you look closer, it is clear that the largest areas up in northwestern Sweden consist of mountainous areas above the treeline, sparsely forested areas close to the…
IKEA and Swedwood agree to meet with environmental organizations to discuss the loggings in Russian Karelia. Since this spring, IKEA and Swedwood have been severely criticized fortheir logging in Russian Karelia by Protect the Forest and otherenvironmental organizations, including the Karelian organization SPOK.Read more about the criticism here (http://www.protecttheforest.se/ikea). The campaign has grown andgained support…
Protect the Forest has sent a cross-section of a 400-year-old tree from one of IKEA’s clear-cuts to IKEA’s head office in Sweden, along with a copy of the interview and a list of our demands. Photo: Daniel Rutschman Russian conservation expert confirms the criticism of IKEA’s logging in Russian Karelia The environmental organization Protect…
