Centre for Econics and

Ecosystem Management

Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development

Faculty of Forest and Environment

Alfred-Möller-Str. 1
D-16225 Eberswalde

+49 3334 657-178 - pibisch[a]hnee.de

Member of the Global Forest Biodiversity Initiative

+++ 10 May 2020. Recently, we visited forest areas affected by calamities as well as subsequent salvage logging in various parts of Germany. The trip revealed serious facets of the unfolding forest crisis with large-scale clearcuts and conventional reforestation practices that contribute to ecosystem degradation. Many German foresters seem to abandon the principles of sustainable forest management, the sector was so proud of. Slidecasts document the practices that give reason for concern and seem to be against the principles of sustainable forestry (in German) +++

+++ 14 February 2020. Another paper communicating our research on boreal forest use under the FSC label

(Forest Stewardship Council) has been published in Ecological Processes. The title of the study is Clearcuts and related secondary dieback undermine the ecological effectiveness of FSC certification in a borel forest +++

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