Bringing people back to their native forests

A RECENT article in another newspaper, entitled “Trees obscured by forest of verbiage” neatly sums up the current Irish Forestry Policy.

A document mentioned in the article was released by the EU Agriculture and Food Commission (which recently audited Irish forestry) and indicates how seriously sustainable forestry is viewed for the future of rural areas in the EU.

Sustainable forestry management is the bedrock upon which all other sustainability development depends. This was agreed and recognised at the Earth Summit in Rio 1992, and reinforced by the 1993 Convention on Biological diversity, which stated that the conservation and development of multiuse woodlands was the key to biodiversity conservation and improvements.