The Forest Inquiry’s proposal goes against the warnings from our
expert authorities the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and the Swedish Forest Agency on the crisis for
biodiversity in the forest and ignore our international
commitments on nature conservation. Instead, the investigator clings to
outdated methods that do not meet today’s needs. The way forward lies
intensified tree cultivation with fertilization, with high risks in
climate change. Instead, we need close-to-nature forestry with
resilience to storms, droughts, fires and diseases, and a
protection of the remaining unprotected natural forests, as set out in the
requirements of the Swedish Forest Vision.
If implemented, the proposals will lead to a reduction in the diversity of our
Forests are being impoverished – in plain language, it is a death sentence for our environmental goals
and for priceless natural heritage in the forest. They even open up to
devastation in our existing nature reserves. They also want to
calculation methods for carbon sequestration should be set up so that the industry
be able to continue chopping as they please. The entire forest investigation should be seen as a
anti-nature submission and a commissioned work from
the forest industry, which the government has not even tried to hide when picking
investigator directly from the forest industry. Throughout his career, he has
unilaterally represented the interests of industry.
Another serious aspect is the inquiry’s attempt to depart from the
scientific assessments and expert authorities when Sweden is to
report on the state of the environment. We have often seen this contempt for science
the government use the recent past. Most recently, when they
that
based in the report to the EU on trends and
the state of species and habitats. This is a frightening sign of
an anti-scientific and undemocratic social development.
