Världens naturskogar spelar en nyckelroll för klimatet. Kalhyggen och pappersindustri är stora klimatbovar.
Skogen är artrik och det största landbaserade ekosystemet i Sverige. Men den mångfalden av växter, svampar och djur är hotad.
En levande skog är grunden för en myriad av möjligheter till mångbruk om den förvaltas inom ekosystemens gränser.
The image of Sweden as a global sustainable forestry leader got shattered when scientists, forest experts and representatives from environmental NGOs from Russia, Finland and the UK visited threatened natural forests in Vildmarksriket (the Wilderness Empire) and Ore Skogsrike (Ore Forest Empire) in Dalarna in Sweden last week. The Swedish forests turned out to be…
The organization has orchestrated a number of campaigns with different targets, the most well-known being the campaign against IKEA’s destruction of old-growth forests in Carelia, north-western Russia.
Important message in Deforestation book Deforestation: Why YOU Need to Stop it NOW, by L. F. Collingwood The essential message of this book is that we, as consumers, need to take personal responsibility for deforestation, and all other environmental destruction and pollution, because no-one else will if we don’t. While collective responsibility is…
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…
