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"Poland’s new climate minister has said she will “get saws out of Polish
forests” by limiting logging in 10 of the country’s most treasured woodlands.
Paulina Hennig-Kloska, who was appointed climate and environment minister last
month after far-right and nationalist parties failed to form a coalition, said
on Monday that the half-year moratorium in forests across the country was the
first step to limiting logging.
The government promised in its coalition agreement to protect 20% of the
country’s forests. The new measures affect just 1.5% of state-managed woodlands
but include biodiverse forests such as the Carpathian forest in the south-east,
Knyszyn forest in the north-east and those surrounding the city of Wrocław in
the south-west.
The deputy climate minister, Mikołaj Dorożała, said: “These are the most
valuable natural places that have a very important social aspect, including
being near large urban centres.”
Poland is home to some of Europe’s last surviving ancient woodlands but its
forests have been devastated by an onslaught of logging. Nature groups have
stressed that the country is home to threatened animals that have been killed
off in many parts of Europe, such as brown bears, grey wolves and bison.
Poland’s forests have seen “enormous devastation” and the state-owned companies
that care for them require thorough reform, said Aleksandra Wiktor, a nature
campaigner from Greenpeace Poland.
“Such a situation should never happen again,” she said. “They should serve
society and protect nature, not be a money-making machine for politicians and
forest barons.”
Poland’s new government has promised stronger climate action than the last,
with pledges to build more clean energy, hasten the switch from coal to
renewables and cut planet-heating pollution faster."
Via
What Could Go Right? January 18, 2024:
https://theprogressnetwork.org/maternal-mortality-rates-united-states/
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