Global Forest Coalition Calls for help: Bialowieza-the last wild forest in Europe - Global Forest Coalition
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So you can only be left speechless when you hear Jan Szyszko Poland’s environmental minister. He stated ”The Białowieża forest was granted UNESCO natural heritage status illegally. This ridiculous statement was made due to the fact that State Forest National Forest Holding started to log the precious ecosystem. This was done under the excuse of fighting a bark beetle infestation. In fact the conditions in the forest have changed. First in the 1950 a drainage system was established in order to enable agriculture in the area. Second, over the last years there were many dry summer periods. This lead to the lowering of the groundwater table and very vulnerable spruce trees. These trees are now under threat of a bark beetle outbreak. The answer of the government came in March 2016: Logging trees to get the outbreak under control. This action is for two reasons a farce. On the one hand many scientist stress that it is impossible to regulate the outbreak in this way. On the other hand the bark beetle out break and the deadwood it generates are part of the important ecological processes which happen in the last remaining primeval forest of Europe.
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