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SCA has logged a forest with very high conservation values - a violation of FSC, the Environmental Code and the Species Protection Ordinance

Mar 1, 2023Kristina BäckForest NewsOrrmyrarna, SCA, Swedish Environmental Code, Swedish Species Protection Ordinance

The FSC-certified forest company SCA has clear-cut forest with very high conservation values at Orrmyrarna in Sollefteå municipality, Sweden. An environmental crime, according to Näsåker’s forest group and Skogsvärn Skogsnäs. In the forest, there was the red-listed marsh tit, which cannot withstand logging, 1,000s of red listed orchids Goodyera repens and many red listed wood-living…

SCA plans to log forests with red-listed species: “Incomprehensible!”

Feb 9, 2023Kristina BäckForest News, Press Releases, The Organisationbiodiversity loss, forest protection, Redlisted species, SCA, Swedish Species Protection Ordinance

FSC-certified SCA plans to log forests with very high conservation values at Svarttjärnsåsen and Marktjärn in Ånge municipality in Sweden. Despite the fact that SCA has received information of the forests’ high conservation values and that they harbor many red-listed species, SCA has not withdrawn its felling notifications. Now the NGO Protect the Forest requests…

Sweden fails to protect species – old-growth forests planned for logging

Jan 30, 2023Skydda SkogenForest News, Press Releasesbiodiversity loss, climate, forest protection, Research Excursion, SCA, Sveaskog, The Swedish Church

The forest company SCA plans to clear-cut hundreds of hectares of natural forest with high conservation values in Västernorrland county in Sweden. The NGOs Protect the Forest and the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation (SSNC) have surveyed the forests and found 70 red-listed species. The two NGOs demand that the logging plans are withdrawn: “These…

SCA plans to clear-cut 200 hectares forest with very high conservation values at Vargtjärnen

Jan 9, 2023Skydda SkogenForest News, Press Releasesbiodiversity loss, red-listed species, SCA, Vargtjärnen

The forest company SCA plans to clear-cut over 200 hectares of old-growth forest at Vargtjärnen in Ånge municipality, Västernorrland county in Sweden. It is a forest with very high conservation values where 38 red-listed species have been found – some of them are even endangered (EN) or critically endangered (CR). The two NGOs Protect the Forest and…

SCA has logged a forest with very high conservation values ​​- a violation of FSC, the Environmental Code and the Species Protection Ordinance

SCA plans to log forests with red-listed species: “Incomprehensible!”

Sweden fails to protect species – old-growth forests planned for logging

SCA plans to clear-cut 200 hectares forest with very high conservation values at Vargtjärnen

SCA has logged a forest with very high conservation values - a violation of FSC, the Environmental Code and the Species Protection Ordinance