Budapest, April 15 2016 - The Hungarian protected forest areas is still going on side of wood - says WWF Hungary.
According to the organization make just two per cent of the country's forest area (37,500 hectares) in the key, aged 120 years forests, a third of which there is no natural protection. The National Forest Database that only 0.35 per cent of Hungary's forests older than 150 years. The more than 200 years old is just a total area of ??186 hectares.
The protected and strictly protected state forest area of ??more than half of old logging is still going on. The oldest lowland oak forests, mountain beech forests utilization of wood as a compromise the protection of biodiversity - the type of WWF Hungary.
1800 hectares 120 years old oak, representing some of the jewels of the former Great Plains 90 percent of logging is going on, mostly clear-cutting. The Nyírség this proportion reaches 98 percent. At present, the domestic total forest area of ??more than 95 percent of logging is taking place.
" We believe that is protected and strictly protected the public forests enforcement of conservation and public welfare considerations a priority. This requires that for almost half a century old lived ensure the preservation of forests by all means." - said Laszlo Gálhidy, WWF Hungary Forest Protection Program manager.