Forest Protection Blog: ALERT! Stop UK Government's Grand Forest Sell-off, Urge Protection and Restoration for the People's Old Forests
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The UK government plans to put half of England's state-owned forests up for sale to private firms to raise billions to reduce the budget deficit and as a give-away to the nascent biomass industry. Ancient woodlands [search], regenerating natural forests and planted trees all provide important ecosystems and could be chopped down to make way for holiday villages, golf courses and commercial logging. This is theft of the English cultural heritage with woodlands and natural landscapes. Instead the UK government should fully protect many of these woodlands, fund forest ecological restoration and native plantation establishment, and strive in haste to get to 25% forest cover and beyond for their own ecological sustainability.
Posted by Dr. Glen Barry on November 11, 2010 2:18 PM CommentsPlease save your beautiful forests
Posted by: jane edsall | November 11, 2010 2:59 PMActually they plan to sell all the public forests is England see http://ww2.defra.gov.uk/news/2010/10/29/forestry/ no mention of percentages. Please sign the petition and email your local Mp via http://www.38degrees.org.uk/
Posted by: Andrew Jamers | November 13, 2010 3:24 AMThat is an utter disgrace! Trading reservoirs of biodiversity for stupid golf courses....
I'm disgusted.
Posted by: Herve | November 14, 2010 5:06 PMDo they have any regard for the wildlife that will be killed or made homeless by ripping out the forests? What about the generations to come? No forests? We're in the process of climate change and need all the trees we can get! The life of the planet is more important than paying off the bloody deficit! Once the forests are gone, they're gone forever!
Posted by: Juliet Johns Pearson | November 15, 2010 6:32 AMI live in Romania and we are facing the same problems with groups of interest destroying woodlands for industrial purpose. The main theft to the country is that no trees having been replanted for years. What will be left in a few years when all forests will be gone.
Posted by: Bruce | November 18, 2010 2:15 AMRestoring Our Ancient Roots
?Just doing the right thing?
Who are we to tell countries to save the rain forests when our ancestors cut down over 80% of all ancient forest and replaced it with farmland, cities and industrial areas?
Ancient forest also termed as old-growth forest, primary forest, ancient forest, virgin forest, primeval forest & frontier forest takes hundreds of years grow. Most were felled between the 17th Century and 1980.
The greatest legacy we can leave our grand children?s children is to restore these ancient forests across Europe, North America, Canada, United States, Central America, South America, Africa & Australasia.
There was a time when the human legacy was one of what we can build, what we can make & what we can invent. That time is over the only human legacy we can leave is what we can restore.
Why restore?
If we don?t restore after the rain forests are gone the great pine forests will be in great demand and value & it will only be a matter of time before they will suffer the same fate as the rain forest. Then there will be no great forests to save.
To protect the legacy we have to take responsibility for it, this can only be done in countries which have stable government, in countries who have laws which stand the test of time, this can only happen in developed countries who have already destroyed the ancient forests.
How do we restore?
Purchase land where ancient forests can be restored. Manage the start process of the restoration as we are only the starting generation we will never see the full result of our efforts. It is our responsibility to make sure the structures are in place and no one can destroy the legacy after we are gone.
The Legacy
We do this as we know it is the right thing to do. As a generation we only have two legacies? we could leave, the first is to be the generation that consumed knowing we are taking our grand children?s children right to breath fresh air away from them forever or we are the generation that took responsibility to make sure our grand children?s children inherited the right to be able to always be able to breathe fresh air.
What do we need?
We need the greatest minds on forest management, the greatest legal minds, the greatest endorsements & a generation who wants to take responsibility for doing the right thing.
We aim to raise $400 million in our first year this will enable us to have a trail in every country and set up the forest management and legal security structure needed before we restore our lasting and most important human legacy in recorded history.
I'm just one person with little money, What can I do? The sale and ultimate destruction of our native forests means we will lose such a huge section of our biodiversity, and we lose our lungs, our heritage! We are so lucky to have the beautiful environment we live in, and due to "our" government messing up once again, they want to recoup by selling OUR woodland habitats! So, I only have the power of word of mouth, what can I do to help prevent the government destroying our spectacular forests??
Posted by: Vicky Redfern | November 28, 2010 11:17 AMThis seems like a real shame. On one hand, economic recessions are good for the environment because they encourage people to conserve energy, but then governments go and do something like this. It seems very shortsighted to me.
Posted by: Karen | November 29, 2010 8:52 PMThis doesn't benefit anyone. We should protect our woodlands and natural landscapes because they are major providers of goods and services.
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