Four threatened forest areas with high conservation values in the border areas between the counties of Jämtland and Västernorrland in Sweden were examined this summer during the Research Trip. The participants did over 3,500 findings of nature conservation species, i.e. species that indicate high conservation values or are threatened, partly in forest planned for felling.…
Last weekend Protect the Forest carried out an inventory in the Högsta forest, an unprotected natural forest in Haninge municipality. We didn’t get far before everyone stopped to take a closer look at the wood-living fungi Phellinidium ferrugineofuscum (NT), Porodaedalea chrysoloma (NT) and the lichen Felipes leucopellaeus, the wood-living fungi Fuscoporia viticola and Pyrola chlorantha,…
During the past few days, members of Protect the Forest, together with Ornö residents, have inventoried threatened forest on the island of Ornö in the Stockholm archipelago. A road has been built into unprotected forest, which most likely means that the landowner intends to do logging there. The entire forest is worth protecting: It harbours…
A private landowner has built a road straight into an unprotected natural forest on the island of Ornö in the Stockholm archipelago. In all likelihood, this means that felling of trees will soon take place. A few weeks ago members of Protect the Forest together with islanders on Ornö examined part of the forest and…
