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.
Unsustainable forestry, Luopioinen, Pälkäne, Finland. Photo: Tero Laakso, Creative Commons (CCO by 2.0) Protect the Forest has sent a mail to all the Members of the European Parliament and to the European Commission urging them to take action against the clear-cutting of northern Europe’s last unprotected natural forests. Increased logging is being promoted by the…
The documentary BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal? (2019) shows how the burning of wood at an industrial scale for energy accelerates the destruction of forests for fuel, and probes the policy loopholes, huge subsidies, and blatant greenwashing of the burgeoning biomass power industry. Bioenergy is generally considered as carbon neutral and is therefore subsidized by…
A newly made road through a natural forest with woodland key habitat qualities. The photo is from the end of June 2019. The non-profit conservationist Björn Mildh wrote an open letter to Herman Sundqvist, Director General of the Swedish Forest Agency: Dear Herman, In July 2019, I commented on your blog post entitled “The image of…
Siberian tit. Photo: Wikipedia A new study from Birdlife Sweden states that many of Sweden’s woodland bird species are seriously threatened by forestry. The report emphazises that the inventory of Sweden’s woodland key habitats must be resumed and extended, forest landscapes protected and that the forest industry should start using sustainable logging methods. The study…
European spruce bark beetle. Photo: Harald Kloth via Wikipedia. The organization Protect the Forest fears that the pursuit of stopping the European spruce bark beetle, will lead to extensive logging of whole forests with rich biodiversity in Sweden. During 2019 woodland key habitats and forests with high conservation values have been logged, are being…
