The whole of Białowieża Primeval Forest should be a national park.
Today we walked through the forest to protest against the government’s illegal logging. People came from all over Poland, and all walks of life to show their support for enlarging the national park. With the latest opinion polls showing that 2/3rds of Polish society is against the current logging plans, hopefully it’s only a matter of time before our natural heritage is properly protected.
Białowieża Primeval Forest is currently being turned into this.
cameras + bikes + shrooms = good
tree murdering machines = bad
Rebellious protesters defying the ban on accessing the wilderness.
Jan Szyszko is the environment minister responsible for the whole fiasco. The poster on the left – ‘Szyszko get lost!’. On the right – ‘Szysko get in a can’.
One of many over hundred year old spruces felled to be carted away to the sawmill. I counted one to be 170 years old. If these dead trees were left in the forest, they’d live another century, providing habitat for countless other species.
The left is a little poem about Szyszko being a bark beetle, destroyer of forests. The right is about Simona Kossak, a late naturalist who said ‘let’s save the green paradise’.
It was raining, so this guy had a bag on his head: a literal bag head.
Piled up and ready to become planks.
By some estimates there were 800 of us out in the rainy forest today.
‘Locals against logging’ – the gov like to portray the protesters as a bunch of aloof city folks. But in fact, increasing numbers of locals are realising just how valuable the forest is worth alive.
It’s time to STOP the most biodiverse forest in lowland Europe from becoming a patchwork of devastation like this
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