Welcome to the Natural Heritage blog. Here you can read interesting facts about our boreal old-growth forests, the small and large animals that live there, the effect the forest has on our health and other useful, fun, interesting and exciting writing.
Leif Danielson's obituary - Naturarvet feels great gratitude for Leif's life's work to preserve old-growth forest
Read more "How likely is it that we humans realize that we are hurtling towards a catastrophe and how can you influence the likelihood that Naturarvet to be able to buy a forest and by protect It will forever contribute to mitigating the catastrophe with the help of the best carbon sink we have on land – the old-growth forest.
Read more "Björksäter October 3, 2022 This weekend, Sverker Lenas wrote in DN that the forests in the Nordic and Baltic countries are going from carbon sink to emission source. The rate of felling is increasing while the forest's ability to bind carbon is decreasing. In Estonia, the forest sector has become a source of emissions on its own. Logging volumes have increased significantly to meet the demand for fuel pellets in [...].
Read more "Naturarvet's Executive Director Lo Jarl and volunteer inspirer Ywonne Jarl visited an area the week after Easter 2022 that we have named Fågelskärsudden on Gräsö, adjacent to Svartsundets old-growth forest. Acquisition of the forest is underway, which is a mix of relatively young primeval forest on rocky ground and overgrown sea bays, as well as natural forest with cultural impact through forest grazing and older overgrown [...]
Read more "A study in the field of theoretical evolutionary ecology published in Nature plants shows the importance of ancient trees for the genetic diversity of forest ecosystems and thus their adaptive capacity to, for example, climate change. Your contribution to protecting more old-growth forest is crucial for the future.
Read more "Culture meets nature The Climate Salon 2021 is in full swing and will have a grand finale on the weekend of 15-17 October with an online auction of donated artworks via the Climate Salon's instagram account.
Read more "Natural Heritage's Director of Operations reflecting on the forest as an analogue to a work of art. How do we know what a forest is worth? How do we know what it should be good for? What does the old-growth forest mean to you?
Read more "Naturarvet in collaboration with Friggs From today, you can find Friggs' new seasonal flavours of corn cakes blueberry and cinnamon bun in stores. The biscuits are being made in a limited edition to offer a gluten-free alternative to summer feasts. To ensure that you can continue to enjoy coffee in the old forest in the future, Friggs is supporting Naturarvet with 50 pence per pack. [...]
Read more "On International Forest Day, here at home, we reflected on forests and our relationship with them.
Starting from the first sentence of the title, there is not much to say. What happens in the forest is life. It goes on. 24-7. How it's going on is determined in the second sentence. The fate of the forest rests in the hands of man and is influenced by the whims of man.
Read more "Naturarvet together with four other organisations, has sent a letter to EU Environment Ministers (Environment Council) and others asking them to consider the consequences of following the EU Parliament's line on the reference levels in the LULUCF* Regulation under the Climate and Energy Framework for the period from 2020 to 2030. The Parliament voted through a compromise proposal which, among other things, brought forward the date for reference levels for [...]
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