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

+++ 25 June 2020. Forest experts from Spain, Poland, Sweden and Germany give a bad report on the EU's new biodiversity strategy. In an article published in Science, they criticize the forest-related objectives. One point of criticism concerns actionism and symbolic actions such as the mass planting of tree seedlings. Instead, they call for the necessary climate change adaptation in forestry to be designed on the basis of recognised ecological knowledge +++

+++ 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) +++

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