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…
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…
