Appeal: Protect Sweden's Old-Growth Forests

January 31, 2010 by timbercommunity

The initiator of the Appeal is the organization Protect the Forest and  the motives is to Adopt a new area objective for the period 2010-2020, which is in line with leading nature  conservation science. They also want to increase the budget allocated to forest protection for the period 2010-2020 to the level needed for long-term conservation of forest biodiversity.

Other motives are:
Favor a greater variety of forest management methods in the 80 percent of the productive forest land, which is still being managed.

Mitigate climate change and promote increased carbon storage in forest soil by safeguarding the remaining older forests and modify the forest management methods in managed forests.

Safeguard the montane forest. The boundary of the sub-montane forest should not be restricted.

Better general consideration in forestry.

Initiate support for landscape planning.

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