Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Białowieża Forest' has mentioned 'Logging' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Contents 1 Name 2 Nature protection 2.1 Biaxc5x82owiexc5xbca National Park, Poland 2.2 Belavezhskaya Pushcha National Park, Belarus 3 History 3.1 20th-century wartime damage and restoration 4 Named oaks 5 Logging 6 In popular culture 7 See also 8 References 9 External links | WIKI |
| Logging[edit] | WIKI |
| Environmentalists say that logging is threatening the flora and fauna in the forest, including species of rare birds, such as the white-backed woodpecker, who lost 30% of their population in forestry-managed areas in the 1990s and 2000s. | WIKI |
| [23] Poland's state forestry board claims the logging is for protection and for ecological reasons,[24] protecting against the European spruce bark beetle. | WIKI |
| On 25 March 2016, Jan Szyszko, Poland's Environment Minister, former forester and forestry academic, announced that he would approve a tripling of logging in the forest, from the 2012xe2x80x9321 limit of 63,000xc2xa0m3 (2,200,000xc2xa0cuxc2xa0ft) xe2x80x93 almost exhausted at the time xe2x80x93 to 188,000xc2xa0m3 (6,600,000xc2xa0cuxc2xa0ft), offering the excuse of "combatting an infestation of the bark beetle". | WIKI |
| [26] Robert Cyglicki, head of Greenpeace Polska, argued that logging to fight the bark beetle would "bring more damage than benefits", gathering more than 120,000 signatures to petition Prime Minister Beata Szydxc5x82o to reverse Szyszko's move. | WIKI |
| [26] Greenpeace also said the logging could trigger the EU to launch punitive procedures against Poland for violating its Natura 2000 programme,[27] though Szyszko claims that the logging plans would not apply to strictly protected areas,[27] and claims that, rather than being 8,000 years old, as scientists claim,[26] parts of the forest had been created by an "enterprising hand of man" on lands that centuries ago included fields of wheat and millet. | WIKI |
| Large-scale logging started in 2017. | WIKI |
| [28] 190,000 cubic metres of wood (160,000 to 180,000 trees) was felled, the largest volume of logging since 1988. | WIKI |
| [29] The Polish government has ignored pleas from UNESCO to stop logging the old-growth parts of the forest,[30] as well as a court order of the European Court of Justice to halt the logging activities. | WIKI |
| In late 2017, Wojtek Voiteque Kowalik, a senior copy editor at the Polish advertising firm Ogilvy, decided to work with Greenpeace Poland to spread awareness of the Biaxc5x82owiexc5xbca Forest and the logging threatening it. | WIKI |