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Time is, once again, running out for consultations with municipalities, and to convene a forestry council in the framework of preparations for the Forestry Development Plan (MAK). Minister of the Environment Madis Kallas believes, that, for the sake of nature and Europe's carbon sinks, a compromise must be reached, whereby Estonia's annual forest felling volumes are below 10 million cubic meters.
Time is, once again, running out for consultations with municipalities, and to convene a forestry council in the framework of preparations for the Forestry Development Plan (MAK). Minister of the Environment Madis Kallas believes, that, for the sake of nature and Europe's carbon sinks, a compromise must be reached, whereby Estonia's annual forest felling volumes are below 10 million cubic meters.
A state decision to reduce the area of regeneration felling by four percent in a year instead of the 13 percent initially planned goes against what was agreed between the Reform Party and the Center Party when they signed a coalition deal, and will not solve the issues intended – while at the same time harming Estonia's environment unnecessarily, a wildlife protection lobbyist says.