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Message: <blockquote data-quote="locustella" data-source="post: 3377853" data-attributes="member: 26257">This is not in national park, but in its vicinity, listed i.e. as Unesco World Heritage site:<a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/33" target="_blank">http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/33</a>and covered by Biosphere Reserve (UNESCO MAB Biosphere Reserve) or its buffer zones:<a href="http://www2.unesco.org/mab/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?mode=all&code=POL+02" target="_blank">http://www2.unesco.org/mab/br/brdir/directory/biores.asp?mode=all&code=POL+02</a> (not working right now)That area should be protected as national park but is not. Extension of the park is blocked by governments from many years, so called non-governmental organizations don't want to mention the term "national park", everything is belayed and banned. They protest only because timber is going to be cut by improper political (PiS) party which defeated their party (PO) (disliking the word "national", liking only Natura 2000, maybe they depend on financially), not because it is cut. So this is not only because of the wood grabbing, but also about PO-PiS madness.Directly it is banned by local authorities, but they got the right of "veto" from Warsaw. They won't allow to extend the park even by 1 mm2, because using this forest is the tool allowing them to get something from Warsaw from time to time, like additional financing under the pretext of future extension of the park. In my opinion this is sort of blackmail with the use of Białowieża forest. But the real reason lies in Warsaw - the ministry of environment(/parliament) and it's State Forestry enterprise. They only hide behind locals putting everything on them generating never ending conflicts between them and greens.Regarding the bark beetle - it is natural element of the forest, not less important than the spruce and is called parasite only from the point of view of people using spruce wood as the raw material. Notice that they use m3 as the unit. They don't look at trees like at something alive, part of nature. They are much worse then the bark beetle, cut much more trees than bark beetle could destroy and convert into so called dead wood, which is sort of ecosystem and also very important element of the forest. The bark beetle is i.e. food source for the three toed woodpecker, many animals and other organisms depend on dead wood.</blockquote>

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