MEDIA

5.07.2021 Channel 4 News in UK aired a story  on biomass, revealing that FSC has been lobbying for weaker biodiversity rules in RED II implementation and looking at old-growth Estonian forests that have been lost to logging with pellet production involvement

29.01.2020 – Devastation in the woods and humanities – Peeter Laurits – ERR

13.01.2020 – Disputes continue between state forestry body and local residents – ERR

11.12.2019 – Estonian Forest NGOs under pressure after challenging governments forestry decision – Martin Luiga and Nicole Gérard – FERN

02.12.2019 – Estonia is beginning to see the cost of wood pellets. Is North Carolina next? –  Elizabeth Ouzts – Energy News Network 

28.05.2019 – The public letter to the Minister of the Environment to support in the establishment of non-disturbance of breeding birdlife – Ecoclub

20.05.2019 – Estonians Campaign To Halt Spring-Summer Logging – Nick Huisman – European Wilderness Society

28.12.2018 – Tartu city residents pick pulp mill halting as event of the year – Andrew White – ERR

08.11.2018 – Estonian government decides to terminate pulp mill spatial plan – Aili Vahtla – ERR

29.08.2018 – Ireland urged to avoid energy credits from Estonian biomass co-fired with oil shale – Niall Sargent – GreenNews.ie

19.05.2018 – Gallery: Thousands protest in Tartu in support of Emajõgi River – Aili Vahtla – ERR

01.02.2018 – Billion-euro pulp mill deal with RMK may be in conflict of interest – Aili Vahtla – ERR

24.01.2018 – Estonian Forests Are At Stake – Vlado Vancura – European Wilderness Society

23.01.2018 – Forest watchdog calls for protection of Estonia’s pagan heritage –  Arthur Neslen – Climate Home News

16.01.2018 – Logging surge threatens a quarter of Estonia’s forest, warn conservationists – Arthur Neslen – Climate Home News

20.10.2017 – Estonia’s trees: Valued resource or squandered second chance? – Rachel Fritts – Mongabay

29.03.2017 – Citizens Confront Estonian State Over Excessive De-Forestation – Linda-Mari Väli – Politicalcritique.org  

25.01.2017 – Tourism companies for sustainable management of Estonian forests – Medium

29.12.2016 – Estonian forest management must become sustainable and made understandable to the public – Looduskalender

16.12.2016 – Logging lobby eating into forests – Nils Niitra – Postimees

23.12.2014 – Soomaa: Largest Bogland Of EU Endangered – Vlado Vancura – European Wilderness Society

14.09.2010 – SFMC felling state forests with no view to future – National Audit Office of Estonia