Logging

A logger sculpts a representation of the Archangel Michael (Taxiarchis in Greek) from a tree trunk. Forty loggers from across Greece, virtuosos of the chainsaw, gathered in Taxiarchis, a village near Mount Holomontas in Polygyros, Halkidiki, to participate in the fifth Logging Championship on Saturday.

A tragic incident occurred in the Telithrio area of northern Euboea on Tuesday morning (September 17), where a 35-year-old forest worker was crushed by a tree.

The man was performing logging activities when, according to information from evima.gr, it appears that the wire mesh came loose from the tree trunk and fell on him, resulting in his death.

There will also no longer be any space for the gardens that surrounded the old buildings, or for the trees that used to grow there.

These trees were not only of sentimental value to old Skopje residents, or important for activists seeking more humane urban development.

In 2022, the total amount of wood identified by employees of the "Executive Forestry Agency" (EFA) and its structures, subject to illegal felling or disposal transactions with wood of unknown origin, amounted to more than 18.1 thousand solid cubic meters.

Initial checks show that there is no illegal logging in the Bulgarian region of Karlovo, which has suffered severely from flooding following torrential rains. This was stated on BNT by Eng. Stoyan Toshev, executive director of the Forestry Agency.

"The state will allocate funds to help victims of the floods in Karlovo region. There will not be a single person left that was affected who will not be helped", stated acting Prime Minister Galab Donev during a visit to the village of Karavelovo.

Romania's Ombudsman on Wednesday posted an own petition on its website, calling attention to logging.

The seriousness of the problem was revealed by the National Forest Inventory, IFN, which calculates the surface of forests and the existing volume of wood they contain.

The first IFN study measured these indicators for 2008 to 2012. The second and latest report, fully released in October 2019, establishes the figures for the period 2013-2018.

The leader of the Social Democrats, Viorica Dancila, says that "as president of Romania" forests would be her first environmental priority. "Forests are my first environmental priority, as President of Romania.

Over 2,000 persons gathered on Sunday night in the center of Bucharest, near University Square, to participate in a march to defend forests and against violence targeting forest rangers, organized by environment organizations Declic, Agent Green and Greenpeace.