Swedish timber industry group Holmen, with its key market in the UK, has violated FSC standards by planning to harvest valuable forests and is suspected of having violated the Species Protection Ordinance, and is even suspected of corruption. The Swedish NGO Protect the Forest calls for UK consumers to put pressure on Holmen and other…
Lime quarry threatens unique forest The Ojnare forest. Photo: Robert Svensson/Protect the Forest. The Ojnare forest on Gotland, in the Baltic Sea, consists of centuries-old pines growing over the limestone that characterizes the island. It is a unique and varied area that includes many wetlands. But now, the company Nordkalk wants to quarry the land…
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…
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”…
