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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.

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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)
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