{"id":7608,"date":"2021-04-27T14:13:42","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T14:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.itlas.com\/cp_blog\/italy-forests-cutting-trees\/"},"modified":"2024-04-08T09:40:50","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T09:40:50","slug":"italy-forests-cutting-trees","status":"publish","type":"cp_blog","link":"https:\/\/www.itlas.com\/en\/blog\/is-italy-cutting-down-too-many-of-its-trees-fake-news","title":{"rendered":"Is Italy cutting down too many of its trees? Fake news."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<p>Rumours are that <strong>in Italian woods too many trees are cut down<\/strong>. More and more persistently, public opinion is brought to think about a progressive destruction of our woodland heritage. But is it true?<\/p>\n<p>Well, no, <strong>it is fake news<\/strong>. As Italians say, \u201cuna bufala\u201d. But this is not enough to explain why this is <strong>disinformation regarding Italian forests and the whole wood chain<\/strong>. We should prefer to provide some numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The harvesting from Italian forests is among the lowest in Europe and it is far less than the yearly growth \u2013 as a matter of fact, it is 40% of the growth the forests perform each year. <strong>In Italy, every year the demand for wood is for 60<\/strong> <strong>million cubic metres, while cutting at home cover just 40% of this national request<\/strong>. As a consequence, there is a very strong need to revert to import. That is to say, that a good <strong>80% of the wood used in our Country has been bought abroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>These data have been processed between 2015 and 2020 by <strong>Forest Europe<\/strong>, the European board that is in charge of the sustainable management of woodlands. Starting from this point, the agency recommended that <strong>Italy should increase the amount of sustainable harvesting from its own forests<\/strong>. Why? There are two reasons.<\/p>\n<p>On one hand, it is important to increase the number of certified forests, so of all those woodlands that are sustainably managed. Trees are a renewable resource that can regenerate itself and the sustainable management grants the planting of young trees when old ones are cut down. And a \u201ccertified management\u201d is the only weapon that Civil Society has, to fight illegal activities in forest\/wood sector, which each year bring to organized crime up to 100 billion euros, thus being their second source of income after drug \u2013 this, according to <strong>Antonio Brunori<\/strong>, secretary general of PEFC\u2122 Italia.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, we must never forget that <strong>massive import has an important effect on what actually are<\/strong> <strong>\u201cthe forests of the others\u201d \u2013 which in most of the cases are not granted the same protections given to<\/strong> <strong>Italian and European ones<\/strong>. Which protections? Here they are: <strong>over 87% of Italian woods are<\/strong> <strong>subjected to hydrogeological binding<\/strong> (32% of European forests). <strong>The 34% of Italian woods are within<\/strong> <strong>protected areas, with naturalistic constraints<\/strong> (23,6% of European forests). But above all, <strong>100% of Italian<\/strong> <strong>woods has a landscape constraint<\/strong> and some of them even a double landscape constraint. Even more: <strong>Italy<\/strong> <strong>has the European record for the largest percentage of forests that grow in protected areas<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","ct_blog_category":[1020],"class_list":["post-7608","cp_blog","type-cp_blog","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is Italy cutting down too many of its trees? 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