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The So-called Modern ‘Sustainable Forestry’ Destroys Wilderness, Old-Growth Forest Landscapes and Ecological Services Worldwide: A Short First-Hand Review and Global Narrative on the Use of ‘Growth-and-Yield’ as a Destructive and Even Impossible Goal

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Old-growth forest wilderness areas are on a rapid global decline. Science-based sustainable forest management (SFM) is practised worldwide but here we show with ground-truthed examples across the world that it is not sustainable on a finite landmass: it encroaches in wilderness areas, employs a road network, has a negative energy budget, makes landscape-scale vegetation younger, and destroys old-growth forests, besides other impacts. The ‘modern’ concept of managed forests and promoted tree plantations to sequester carbon and to quickly produce timber is presented in a meta-analysis from over 15 nations and first-hand accounts by the authors as standing in full conflict with the promotion and welfare of old-growth forest wilderness and all their ecological services on a finite planet. Policies and concepts are exposed that are used by agencies, institutions and NGOs to promote managed neoliberal forests, tree plantations, but that are harming the ancient forested wilderness landscapes and their associated human cultures and societies as well as the atmosphere and global well-being.

‘Tibetan Buddhists and followers of the Bon faith see the universe as interconnected and interdependent. Industrial activities like forestry, freshwater fisheries, mining and damming on their ancestral lands are perceived as gross interference with Mother Nature—and disturbing powerful spirits thought to dwell in the earth and on mountain-tops, and in rivers and lakes.’ Michael Buckley, editor of This Fragile Planet: His Holiness the Dalai Lama on Environment.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the many colleagues and their discussions and work on the issue of old-growth forest wilderness and its protection. FH acknowledges specifically the Chrome team, S. Cushman, E. Huettmann, K. Berrios and the great and important work of the late Dave Klein. This is EWHALE lab publication # 260.

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Huettmann, F., Young, B.D. (2022). The So-called Modern ‘Sustainable Forestry’ Destroys Wilderness, Old-Growth Forest Landscapes and Ecological Services Worldwide: A Short First-Hand Review and Global Narrative on the Use of ‘Growth-and-Yield’ as a Destructive and Even Impossible Goal. In: Kumar, M., Dhyani, S., Kalra, N. (eds) Forest Dynamics and Conservation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-0071-6_3

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