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Greenpeace activists protest against illegal logging in Romania’s Ciucas Mountains
Several Greenpeace activists from Romania blocked on Thursday, August 31, the exploitation of wood in a quasi-virgin forest in Ciucas Mountains. The forest is managed by state-owned company Romsilva.
Wood exploitation in virgin and quasi-virgin forests is illegal, Greenpeace Romania said in a press release. The organization has notified the Prahova Forest Guard and the Environmental Guard.
https://www.romania-insider.com/greenpeace-activists-protest-illegal-logging/?utm_campaign=Twitter&utm_source=Photo&utm_medium=AMS
Törvényt hoznának létre, hogy természetvédelmi területekről is lehessen ásványi anyagokat kiaknázni
Törvényjavaslatot készített harminc parlamenti képviselő, amely az ásványi erőforrások kiaknázását tenné lehetővé az ország természeti parkjaiban és a védett területeken is. A javaslat számos parlamenti bizottságtól már meg is kapta a pozitív véleményezést. A környezetvédelmi szervezetek és aktivisták ellenzik a kezdeményezést, mert ez az ökoszisztéma veszélyeztetésével járna. Az aktivisták jelezték, hogy bírósághoz fognak fordulni annak érdekében, hogy meggátolják.
http://think.transindex.ro/?hir=368
2017. november 15.
A Greenpeace Románia elkészítette a lehetséges románia őserdők térképét. Az alábbi térképen tanulmányozható. Megközelítőleg 300.000 hektár őserdőt azonosítottak, a következő lépés ezeknek az erdőknek a felvétele az őserdők és öreg erdők jegyzékébe amit az erdészeti és vízűgyi minisztériumnak kell véghezvinni.Csak így óvhatók meg ezek az erdők.
http://www.uncut.ro/harta-padurilor-virgine-potentiale/
L'invasione di legna e pellet illegali da Bosnia e Romania - la videoinchiesta
"Se taglio un bosco in Italia, lo compro, ho i permessi, operatori, sistema di sicurezza e camion a posto, la mia legna da ardere al supermercato costa 10 euro. Se la vado a prendere illegale in Bosnia o in Romania, mi costa al massimo 7 euro, mazzetta compresa". Parla Walter Mattioli, Centro ricerche e studi sicurezza e criminalità - Senior expert progetto Trees.
A cikkben látható videó második része Romániáról szól és angolul beszél.
Törvényt hoznának létre, hogy természetvédelmi területekről is lehessen ásványi anyagokat kiaknázni
Törvényjavaslatot készített harminc parlamenti képviselő, amely az ásványi erőforrások kiaknázását tenné lehetővé az ország természeti parkjaiban és a védett területeken is. A javaslat számos parlamenti bizottságtól már meg is kapta a pozitív véleményezést. A környezetvédelmi szervezetek és aktivisták ellenzik a kezdeményezést, mert ez az ökoszisztéma veszélyeztetésével járna. Az aktivisták jelezték, hogy bírósághoz fognak fordulni annak érdekében, hogy meggátolják.
http://think.transindex.ro/?hir=368
2017. november 15.
A Greenpeace Románia elkészítette a lehetséges románia őserdők térképét. Az alábbi térképen tanulmányozható. Megközelítőleg 300.000 hektár őserdőt azonosítottak, a következő lépés ezeknek az erdőknek a felvétele az őserdők és öreg erdők jegyzékébe amit az erdészeti és vízűgyi minisztériumnak kell véghezvinni.Csak így óvhatók meg ezek az erdők.
http://www.uncut.ro/harta-padurilor-virgine-potentiale/
L'invasione di legna e pellet illegali da Bosnia e Romania - la videoinchiesta
"Se taglio un bosco in Italia, lo compro, ho i permessi, operatori, sistema di sicurezza e camion a posto, la mia legna da ardere al supermercato costa 10 euro. Se la vado a prendere illegale in Bosnia o in Romania, mi costa al massimo 7 euro, mazzetta compresa". Parla Walter Mattioli, Centro ricerche e studi sicurezza e criminalità - Senior expert progetto Trees.
A cikkben látható videó második része Romániáról szól és angolul beszél.
https://video.repubblica.it/natura/l-invasione-di-legna-e-pellet-illegali-da-bosnia-e-romania-la-videoinchiesta/289566/290185
Az osztrák és a pellet-biznisz
Boszniából és Romániából származó pellet és tűzifa áradat címmel közölt riportot a reppublica.it olasz portál. A riport fordítása alább olvasható.
Feliratok:
-2005 óta az olaszországi erdővel fedett területek nagysága nőtt, de ennek oka, hogy a kitermelés máshova helyeződött. Olaszország világrekord mennyiségben importál tűzifát, ez mindenekelőtt Kelet-Európából érkezik.
- az Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) civil szervezet
(ld. lent, David Gehl) többször jelentette a romániai pelletgyártáshoz köthető erdőpusztítás problémáját
- az EIA jelentései főleg egy osztrák céget vádolnak (Schweighofer)
- a cég válasza a megismételt feljelentésekre:
Gerald Schweighofer: nem igazak a vádak, ezért szólalok meg nyilvánosan. Azt állítja kizárólag igazolt származású faanyagot használnak.
- De az EIA GPS-rendszerek segítségével igazolta az illegális faanyag-használatot.
Az osztrák és a pellet-biznisz
Boszniából és Romániából származó pellet és tűzifa áradat címmel közölt riportot a reppublica.it olasz portál. A riport fordítása alább olvasható.
Feliratok:
-2005 óta az olaszországi erdővel fedett területek nagysága nőtt, de ennek oka, hogy a kitermelés máshova helyeződött. Olaszország világrekord mennyiségben importál tűzifát, ez mindenekelőtt Kelet-Európából érkezik.
- az Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) civil szervezet
(ld. lent, David Gehl) többször jelentette a romániai pelletgyártáshoz köthető erdőpusztítás problémáját
- az EIA jelentései főleg egy osztrák céget vádolnak (Schweighofer)
- a cég válasza a megismételt feljelentésekre:
Gerald Schweighofer: nem igazak a vádak, ezért szólalok meg nyilvánosan. Azt állítja kizárólag igazolt származású faanyagot használnak.
- De az EIA GPS-rendszerek segítségével igazolta az illegális faanyag-használatot.
Egy friss botrány és egy dokumentumfilm is felhívja a figyelmet az Európa utolsó érintetlen vadonjainak otthont adó Romániában dúló illegális fakitermelésre. Nemcsak a korrupt politika vagy a profitéhes multi a hibás: székely falusi közösségeket is megvadított a fából szerezhető könnyű pénz. Részletes háttér a friss Heti Válaszban.
http://valasz.hu/vilag/famaffia-romaniaban-adjatok-vissza-az-erdeinket-126420
december 1
Illegal Logging in Rodna Mountains National Park, Northern Romania
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has found clear evidence of illegal logging in Romania’s second largest national park, linked to Holzindustrie Schweighofer, an Austrian timber giant. Romania’s national parks encompass some of the last remaining wilderness areas in Europe, but they are under severe threat due to destructive commercial and illegal logging. Foreign market demand for timber, combined with a lack of significant traceability in Romanian timber supply chains, and the continuing failure of major timber buyers like Schweighofer to clean up their sourcing practices are leading to the decimation of Europe’s last great forests.
In Lala Valley in the east of the park, EIA found numerous examples of illegal logging. EIA identified a commonly used log loading site using the Romanian government’s Forest Inspector website, inspectorulpadurii.ro, which shows real-time registrations of transportation permits across the country. At this loading site, EIA filmed piles of spruce logs of various dimensions stacked ready for pickup, and fresh tractor paths leading into the nearby forest. Following these paths led investigators to two separate active logging areas.
At the first site, closest to the loading point, EIA investigators found what appeared to be a “thinning” operation. Under thinning, a common procedure in managed forests around the world, loggers clear smaller trees to make room for larger trees to grow. At the first site, EIA found many examples of what seemed to be correctly done thinning of smaller stumps that appeared to have been marked prior to harvesting. However, EIA also found many larger fresh stumps that fell outside of standard thinning practices. In many places, sick or dead trees had been left standing, while cut stumps indicated larger trees nearby had been cut.
On many stumps at this site, EIA found what appeared to be fake stamps, apparently made during or soon after harvesting, without any clear legible markings. The red paint on these fake stamps was just days old, and often contained wood chips, an indication that they were made close to the time of harvesting – not days or weeks before as is required by law.
Numerous Romanian forest experts have told EIA that illegal loggers often use a hammer and pipe to make such fake stamps. After weeks or months of weathering, these stamps can be difficult to distinguish from real stamps.
One kilometer away, EIA investigators found a second fresh logging site, in the middle of a grove of spruce trees standing alone in an older clear-cut area. At this site, nearly all of the commercially- valuable spruce trees had been recently cut.
Every freshly cut stump had a clear fake stamp on it – fresh paint, often covering woodchips, with no sign of letters or numbers. With one exception, all the stumps were hidden from the road below by a line of thin spruces that had been left standing. In the single case where the stump was visible from the road, it had been carefully covered with tufts of moss.
Fresh tracks down the steep hillside indicated the recent dragging of large logs by horses. These tracks led to a recently- used loading area – a site where not a single official truck loading has been registered on the government’s Forest Inspector website, as required by law.
Romania’s government has recently claimed that the decrease in the large-scale clear-cuts often seen five or ten years ago shows that illegal logging is no longer a problem in Romania. While it is true that there are fewer cases of dramatic illegal clear-cuts in Romania in recent years, the kind of illegal and excessive selective logging documented by EIA and other groups still common throughout Romania’s forests severely degrades the quality of these forests both as habitat for wildlife and as a provider of high-quality timber for future years.
In spruce forests such as the one documented in this case, excessive and illegal thinning resulted in relatively large gaps in the forest cover. Romanian forest experts explained that during storms, heavy winds can enter these gaps, knocking down trees and widening the gaps. Windfalls allow forest managers to approve so-called “accidental” permits to clear fallen trunks – but in many documented cases loggers cut nearby healthy standing timber as well. Over a short period, this steady degradation results in a full clearing of the forest area.
Romania’s Forest Inspector website shows that at least 60 truckloads of wood were transported from this area in the second half of 2017. As the Forest Inspector website fails to show the end destination for timber transports, it is nearly impossible to know where most of this wood ended up. However, EIA has confirmed through sources that wood from this site was bought by Schweighofer, despite the company’s claims not to source from Romania’s national parks.
Romania’s protected forests are under pressure from a steady demand for wood products, largely from foreign markets. Buyers must be particularly careful about where and how their wood is cut. In such a high-risk environment, full traceability is essential.
Romania’s Forest Inspector website represents a revolutionary step forward in providing a degree of transparency into Romanian timber sourcing. Companies buying logs or lumber can check Forest Inspector to see whether their shipment came from the forest it was meant to come from. However, significant gaps still remain. The website does not show the destination of timber, nor links between forest harvest permits and timber transport permits. Critically, there are over 1,000 independent log yards scattered across Romania.
These so-called “depots” mix and sort logs according to species and quality, and cut logs into shorter logs to meet buyers’ demands. Without full traceability of logs through these depots, buyers are unable to identify the forest origin of their log purchases. Consequently, any company buying logs from such a depot is fully exposed to illegal and unsustainable harvesting practices – in violation of European law.
Although logging in national parks can be legal in Romania, Schweighofer has long maintained that they refuse wood from these sources. However, the company still relies on third-party log depots for between 30-50% of their log sourcing in Romania. This looming gap in its sourcing practices exposes it to large amounts of timber from both legal and illegal cutting in national parks.
Logging has been a mainstay of rural Romanian communities for centuries, and large parts of the country remain dependent on forests for their livelihoods – from timber extraction, for collection of mushrooms and other forest products, and from eco-tourism. The destructive logging witnessed by EIA in the Rodna Mountains National Park, both legal and illegal, threatens the future of Romania’s forest communities, and the economic stability of these rural economies.
THE UNFOLDING TRAGEDY OF ROMANIA’S NATIONAL PARKS
Primeval forests have almost totally disappeared from Europe’s map. Only in the Carpathians, the Dinaric Alps and the Balkans have large, untouched areas of forests survived until the present day. The majority of this outstanding natural treasure is located in the Carpathians, a sweeping 1,500 km long range of mountains in central and eastern Europe. Two thirds of Europe’s primeval forests are found in the Romanian Carpathians, where an estimated area of over 200,000 hectares of virgin forests remains, providing homes to a myriad of important plants and animals. Romania is home to Europe’s most abundant populations of large carnivores, including bears, wolves and lynx. In 2016, the Romanian addition made up the largest individual country share of an extension to the UNESCO Ancient and Primeval Beech Forest World Heritage site.december 1
Illegal Logging in Rodna Mountains National Park, Northern Romania
The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) has found clear evidence of illegal logging in Romania’s second largest national park, linked to Holzindustrie Schweighofer, an Austrian timber giant. Romania’s national parks encompass some of the last remaining wilderness areas in Europe, but they are under severe threat due to destructive commercial and illegal logging. Foreign market demand for timber, combined with a lack of significant traceability in Romanian timber supply chains, and the continuing failure of major timber buyers like Schweighofer to clean up their sourcing practices are leading to the decimation of Europe’s last great forests.
In Lala Valley in the east of the park, EIA found numerous examples of illegal logging. EIA identified a commonly used log loading site using the Romanian government’s Forest Inspector website, inspectorulpadurii.ro, which shows real-time registrations of transportation permits across the country. At this loading site, EIA filmed piles of spruce logs of various dimensions stacked ready for pickup, and fresh tractor paths leading into the nearby forest. Following these paths led investigators to two separate active logging areas.
At the first site, closest to the loading point, EIA investigators found what appeared to be a “thinning” operation. Under thinning, a common procedure in managed forests around the world, loggers clear smaller trees to make room for larger trees to grow. At the first site, EIA found many examples of what seemed to be correctly done thinning of smaller stumps that appeared to have been marked prior to harvesting. However, EIA also found many larger fresh stumps that fell outside of standard thinning practices. In many places, sick or dead trees had been left standing, while cut stumps indicated larger trees nearby had been cut.
On many stumps at this site, EIA found what appeared to be fake stamps, apparently made during or soon after harvesting, without any clear legible markings. The red paint on these fake stamps was just days old, and often contained wood chips, an indication that they were made close to the time of harvesting – not days or weeks before as is required by law.
Numerous Romanian forest experts have told EIA that illegal loggers often use a hammer and pipe to make such fake stamps. After weeks or months of weathering, these stamps can be difficult to distinguish from real stamps.
One kilometer away, EIA investigators found a second fresh logging site, in the middle of a grove of spruce trees standing alone in an older clear-cut area. At this site, nearly all of the commercially- valuable spruce trees had been recently cut.
Every freshly cut stump had a clear fake stamp on it – fresh paint, often covering woodchips, with no sign of letters or numbers. With one exception, all the stumps were hidden from the road below by a line of thin spruces that had been left standing. In the single case where the stump was visible from the road, it had been carefully covered with tufts of moss.
Fresh tracks down the steep hillside indicated the recent dragging of large logs by horses. These tracks led to a recently- used loading area – a site where not a single official truck loading has been registered on the government’s Forest Inspector website, as required by law.
Romania’s government has recently claimed that the decrease in the large-scale clear-cuts often seen five or ten years ago shows that illegal logging is no longer a problem in Romania. While it is true that there are fewer cases of dramatic illegal clear-cuts in Romania in recent years, the kind of illegal and excessive selective logging documented by EIA and other groups still common throughout Romania’s forests severely degrades the quality of these forests both as habitat for wildlife and as a provider of high-quality timber for future years.
In spruce forests such as the one documented in this case, excessive and illegal thinning resulted in relatively large gaps in the forest cover. Romanian forest experts explained that during storms, heavy winds can enter these gaps, knocking down trees and widening the gaps. Windfalls allow forest managers to approve so-called “accidental” permits to clear fallen trunks – but in many documented cases loggers cut nearby healthy standing timber as well. Over a short period, this steady degradation results in a full clearing of the forest area.
Romania’s Forest Inspector website shows that at least 60 truckloads of wood were transported from this area in the second half of 2017. As the Forest Inspector website fails to show the end destination for timber transports, it is nearly impossible to know where most of this wood ended up. However, EIA has confirmed through sources that wood from this site was bought by Schweighofer, despite the company’s claims not to source from Romania’s national parks.
Romania’s protected forests are under pressure from a steady demand for wood products, largely from foreign markets. Buyers must be particularly careful about where and how their wood is cut. In such a high-risk environment, full traceability is essential.
Romania’s Forest Inspector website represents a revolutionary step forward in providing a degree of transparency into Romanian timber sourcing. Companies buying logs or lumber can check Forest Inspector to see whether their shipment came from the forest it was meant to come from. However, significant gaps still remain. The website does not show the destination of timber, nor links between forest harvest permits and timber transport permits. Critically, there are over 1,000 independent log yards scattered across Romania.
These so-called “depots” mix and sort logs according to species and quality, and cut logs into shorter logs to meet buyers’ demands. Without full traceability of logs through these depots, buyers are unable to identify the forest origin of their log purchases. Consequently, any company buying logs from such a depot is fully exposed to illegal and unsustainable harvesting practices – in violation of European law.
Although logging in national parks can be legal in Romania, Schweighofer has long maintained that they refuse wood from these sources. However, the company still relies on third-party log depots for between 30-50% of their log sourcing in Romania. This looming gap in its sourcing practices exposes it to large amounts of timber from both legal and illegal cutting in national parks.
Logging has been a mainstay of rural Romanian communities for centuries, and large parts of the country remain dependent on forests for their livelihoods – from timber extraction, for collection of mushrooms and other forest products, and from eco-tourism. The destructive logging witnessed by EIA in the Rodna Mountains National Park, both legal and illegal, threatens the future of Romania’s forest communities, and the economic stability of these rural economies.
THE UNFOLDING TRAGEDY OF ROMANIA’S NATIONAL PARKS
https://en.agentgreen.ro/out-of-control/
Nemzeti parkból a karosszékbe: a Schweighofer ismét a kettő közé ült
Nemzeti parkból a karosszékbe: a Schweighofer ismét a kettő közé ült
Nem ez az első eset, hogy illegális fakitermelés vádja éri a Holzindustrie Schweighofer osztrák fafeldolgozó céget.
A Schweighofer ilyen jellegű botrányai olyan szintig fokozódtak, hogy idén februárban az FSC (Forestry Stewardship Council) úgy döntött, megvonja a fenntarthatósági tanúsítványukat és kizárja tagjai közül a céget. Ennek hatására a cég ekkor reformokat hirdetett saját eljárásait illetően, azonban az Agent Green civil szervezet és az Environmental Investigation Agency friss jelentései szerint szinte semmi változás nem állt be az illegális fakitermeléssel szembeni hozzáállásuk terén.
Most of the EU’s last primeval forests are found in Romania. But they are under immediate threat from ongoing commercial logging, even in national parks and Natura 2000 areas, environmental NGOs EuroNatur and Agent Green claim. Today the NGOs publish the first episode of the investigative video documentary online series “Out of Control”, showing evidence of fresh and brutal logging of primeval forests within the Domogled – Valea Cernei National Park.
Agent Green investigators visited the last untouched valley of the park, which was opened for commercial logging by the forest and park authorities last spring and discovered scandalous devastation of pristine nature.
http://www.saveparadiseforests.eu/en/investigation-video-primeval-forest-destruction-in-romanias-national-parks/
Kampf um Rumäniens Urwälder
Eine Kartierung der rumänischen Urwälder soll deren besseren Schutz sichern. Denn im Moment findet auch in Schutzgebieten legale Abholzung im großen Rahmen statt, kritisieren NGOs und Wissenschafter Wien/Bukarest – In Rumänien befinden sich noch 60 bis 70 Prozent der Urwälder in der EU. "Das ist ein Geschenk der Geschichte", sagt Rainer Luick von der Hochschule für Forstwirtschaft in Rottenburg. Die Gründe für den Erhalt sind vielseitig – geringe Bevölkerungsdichte, unzugängliche Gebiete in den rumänischen Karpaten, und Holz galt lange im Gegensatz zu Beton in der rumänischen Baubranche als rückständig. Während in den Hochlagen der Gebirge schon seit sehr langer Zeit oft eine traditionelle Weidewirtschaft betrieben wird, wurden die steilen Täler kaum oder gar nicht erschlossen. Dort sind an beiden Hangflanken und auch entlang der Flüsse großflächige Wildnisgebiete erhalten geblieben. Doch die Waldfläche verschwindet in den vergangenen Jahren rapide, selbst in Nationalparks und Natura-2000-Gebieten wird abgeholzt. Eine Kartierung der Urwälder, die Luick mitinitiiert hat, soll nun die Daten für einen besseren Schutz bieten.
Kampf um Rumäniens Urwälder
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