Exploring Sweden's forests: How is the industry dealing with the world's demands?

euronews (in English)

Sweden is one of the world’s biggest exporters of wood-based materials. We meet the foresters trying to promote more sustainable practices for the industry.

Transcript

00:00 (dramatic music)

00:02 - This is a rather huge, large clear cut

00:10 here in the southern part of Sweden.

00:12 They take down all the trees.

00:15 Here they have done it for something like five years ago,

00:18 something like that.

00:19 You change the condition for the bidirectional, radical.

00:26 This is rather easy for the owners.

00:29 They have a big machine and it's rather rational

00:34 that this go in and they take all down in the same time.

00:39 You will have all the income in one year.

00:42 A natural pine like this will live more

00:47 and less a thousand years, but we will cut it.

00:50 Probably when it's 60 years.

00:54 - So this little tree in 60 years finally might end up

00:59 like this one here.

01:01 - I feel sad and angry.

01:06 And I think the state here use it only

01:09 for provide the industry.

01:12 And I don't think that we will have a great change

01:15 because they will prefer this pine

01:17 and we will have all in the new forest

01:20 will be a dense forest with only pine.

01:26 Here we can see some tree that have saved.

01:29 - So it's a law.

01:30 They have to maintain this.

01:32 - Yes, they have to leave it for the wildlife.

01:36 But I don't think this is enough.

01:39 (upbeat music)

01:41 (whooshing)

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended