The natural forests of the world play a key role in stabilising the climate. Clearcuts and the paper industry cause enormous emissions of greenhouse gases.
Forests are the largest land-based ecosystem in Sweden hosting a rich biodiversity. But forest plants, fungi and animals are all threatened by intensive forestry.
A healthy forest ecosystem is the foundation for humans to thrive as long as it is managed within the local ecosystem boundaries.
Piles of logged wood from a felled forest in Estonia. Photo: Karl Adami. The environmental NGO Estonian Forest Aid is critical against the forest company Stora Enso’s forest logging in Estonia. In a letter, they urge Stora Enso to shift to contemporary forest management practices in accordance to biodiversity and climate goals which also show consideration to birds’…
Old dead tree in Maskaure Sami village. Photo: Björn Mildh. Kristina Bäck from Protect the Forest is the author of the following blog article which has been published on Global Forest Coalition’s website. Blog article: Indigenous Sami under threat from logging in Sweden Sweden’s state-owned forestry company Sveaskog have announced that they will sell another…
Protecting forests is essential to safeguard biodiversity and mitigate climate change, writes Protect the Forest in its feedback on EU’s 2030 Climate Target Plan. Protect the Forest has given feedback on EU’s 2030 Climate Target Plan. Read the full feedback from Protect the Forest here: There is a climate and biodiversity crisis in the world, and…
More than 100 social leaders from across Colombia have already been assassinated in 2020. Between March 19 and 20, 2020, in the course of 24 hours, three social leaders in Colombia were murdered. One of the victims were Ivo Humberto Bracamonte Quiroz, the social leader of Norte de Santander Department near the Venezuelan border. In…
The Panamazónico Social Forum (FOSPA) will be held in the city of Mocoa, Colombia, on the 13-16th of November 2020. It was supposed to be held on the 22-25th of March 2020 but is postponed till November due to COVID-19. Mocoa is located in the Amazon rainforest region of Colombia. In March 2017, a large…
