A request for a 30% increase in logging in centuries-old forests was defeated in the Parliament’s Agriculture, Food and Forestry Committee. This was announced on the Facebook social network by environmentalist and former MP Alexander Dunchev. He welcomed the decision, which he said was due to strong public support.
We publish Alexander Dunchev’s analysis without editorial intervention:
“Thanks to strong public support, yesterday the request to increase logging by 30%, at the expense of centuries-old forests, was crushed in the Committee on Agriculture, Food and Forests in the National Assembly! The chairman of the KZHG, Mrs. D. Taneva, confirmed that the entire vigil was an initiative of Svilosa’s boss, Mr. Dachev, but it was she who drove it into the ground with the argument that we are no longer in the time of communism (guaranteed resource of low prices and benefits for all).
And here he was exposed to most of his manipulations, as well as impure interests, to the extent that his request to allow logging in centuries-old forests, where logs are mainly extracted, turned out to be in contradiction with his statement that Svilosa only uses waste. Another issue is that we have repeatedly shown how trucks with quality logs are driven to the factory, but there is no end to the lies.
The most interesting thing about the whole discussion was that two quite interesting camps formed! One around Dachev – of directors and deputies who see the forest only as wood and money, and a second camp – of the chairman of the KZHG, a deputy and leader of the Green Movement, a deputy from Vazrazhdane, and two foresters, and even the deputy minister of MFA, who not only emphasized the key public functions of forests, but also exposed with purely economic arguments and questions how the initiators of the hearing – supposedly „capitalists“ complain about the free market and free competition, and how in fact they fight only for monopoly and state privileges. And at the expense of the forest and forestry.
Oh, and one good news, at least for now. The Deputy Minister stated that everything possible is being done to prevent the transformation of state-owned forestry enterprises into joint-stock companies, which would open the way for their privatization!”
