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Schwerin (dpa / mv) - According to the environmental protection organization BUND, the state must tackle the development of climate-stable forests more consistently than before.
"The protection of the climate and biological diversity must have priority over financial aspects, especially in public forests," said the managing director of the Federation for the Environment and Nature Conservation, Corinna Cwielag, of the German press agency.
The amendment on the table for the law on the state forestry agency has not yet done justice to this priority for climate-stable forests.
"There is cost recovery as a measure for the state forests."
The BUND demanded that the water retention in the forests and the effective lowering of the much too high deer populations should have priority.
Even in protected areas there is often conventional farming and the state forests are under economic pressure from the state government.
"This puts the local forest authorities in debt," said Cwielag.
Forestry measures are often much too extensive and so strong that the entire forest climate changes by opening up the previously shaded forest areas.
Sun and wind reach the previously shady and moist forest floor.
Due to the drying out of the upper humus layers in connection with a lack of total precipitation, the forests came under drought stress, said Cwielag.
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One way to achieve climate-stable forests is clear guidelines and obligations for the development of mixed deciduous forests when replanting and replanting.
“The requirement to“ preferably cultivate mixed crops ”is not enough.
That has to be an obligation, ”emphasized Cwielag.
For forest development, it would be better in most cases to simply let dead spruce stand or collapse and then leave the field to nature for ten years.
"This is how natural tree regeneration occurs in the area."
Once the trees are dead, they are no longer a breeding ground for bark beetles.
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