In Sweden, forestry does not take sufficient account of biodiversity, warns the World Wide Fund for Nature in a new report. This makes forests vulnerable to future environmental changes.
WWF points out that more and more species that are dependent on the forest environment are red-listed in Sweden and that we are also harvesting forests with high natural values.
The World Wide Fund for Nature proposes a number of measures in its report, for example, the proportion of protected forestry land should increase.
Preserved species richness is a set UN goal that Sweden has signed, and the World Economic Forum points out in its latest risk report reduced biodiversity as one of the biggest problems humans face.
– The biggest problems are, among other things, that you cut down forests with high nature values and that you do not allow a natural crop rotation with more deciduous trees, says Peter Roberntz who is a forest expert at WWF and one of the authors of the new report.
Source: ICELAND NEWS