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Logging in the Natura 2000 forest of Soomaa National Park

February 3, 2021February 2, 20212 months ago Gintare Tamulyte 558 Views 0 Comments forest, Forest loss, Logging 4 min read

On the 26th of January 2021, in the heart of Soomaa National Park, locals noticed signs of large-scale forest logging.

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Call for a radical change to stop deforestation once and for all

January 26, 2021January 26, 20213 months ago Gintare Tamulyte 500 Views 0 Comments forest, Forest loss 3 min read

New report by WWF reveals that a forest land area totaling 43 million hectares was cut down in just 13

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International Day of Action on Forest Biomass Energy

November 24, 2020November 24, 20205 months ago Jonas Sommer 586 Views 0 Comments forest, forest future, Forest loss, forests 3 min read

We are taking part in an International Day of Action on Forest Biomass Energy on 24th November and need your

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Help stop the destruction of forests for biomass

October 6, 2020October 5, 20206 months ago Gintare Tamulyte 928 Views 1 Comment Biodiversity, Europe, forest future, Forest loss, forests 3 min read

Currently, EU policy indicates that burning wood is “zero carbon” and “renewable energy”. However, this approach is only true if

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Deforestation in Europe increases

September 17, 2020September 16, 20207 months ago Jonas Sommer 1584 Views 1 Comment climate emergency, Europe, forest, Forest loss 2 min read

Forests cover roughly a third of our planet´s land and provide countless services to humanity. This is especially true in

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The climate crisis dries out Europe

August 10, 2020August 8, 20208 months ago Jonas Sommer 1032 Views 0 Comments climate, climate change, climate emergency, Climate Overheating, Europe, forest, forest future, Forest loss 4 min read

Many countries around Europe, especially Central Europe, sound the alarm. Ground water levels and soil moisture are on a historic

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Forests becoming shorter and younger: fires, droughts and pests

June 8, 2020June 3, 202010 months ago Ziva Alif 1247 Views 0 Comments climate change, Forest loss 3 min read

A new paper published in Science recently by McDowell et al. showed how the forests are becoming younger and shorter,

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Will burning forests be the new normal?

April 23, 2020April 29, 202012 months ago Jonas Sommer 1357 Views 0 Comments climate change, climate emergency, Climate Overheating, fire, forest, forest future, Forest loss, forests 4 min read

The climate crisis is the worst crisis in human history and it will affect almost every aspect of the environment

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How environmental destruction paves the way for pandemics

April 7, 2020April 7, 20201 year ago Jonas Sommer 2029 Views 1 Comment Corona, Forest loss 3 min read

We are witnessing the worst pandemic of the last hundred years right now. But it did not happen by sheer

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Wild forests protect the climate

March 25, 2020March 23, 20201 year ago Jonas Sommer 1591 Views 1 Comment Beech forest, climate change, climate emergency, forest, Forest loss, Old growth forests 4 min read

There is a wide consent that forests are the most efficient tool to fight the climate crisis. However, the question

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Romania is unable to stop the logging mafia – the European Commission steps in

March 2, 2020November 6, 20201 year ago Hanna Ollos 2464 Views 3 Comments Forest loss, Logging, Romania 4 min read

This February, the European Commission announced that it is taking legal action to stop the vast illegal logging that has

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Percentage of European forest cover is misguiding information

February 25, 2020February 25, 20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 2330 Views 1 Comment Europe, forest, forest future, Forest loss 2 min read

Our planet is at the edge of ecological collapse. One of the fundamental reasons is several centuries of deforestation and

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The history of European forest exploitation

February 3, 2020April 2, 20201 year ago Vlado Vancura 1671 Views 1 Comment Forest loss 3 min read

European forests dramatically suffered not only in the last decades but ever since the development of agriculture and permanent settlement

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Challenge to protect European forests

December 18, 2019December 18, 20191 year ago Vlado Vancura 1876 Views 0 Comments Europe, Forest loss 4 min read

European forests are under extreme pressure. We can read almost daily the stories that somewhere in Europe forests are dying, logged and disappearing. The initial event leading

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