• What is commercial forestry getting wrong?

  • May 31 2024
  • Duración: 33 m
  • Podcast

What is commercial forestry getting wrong?

  • Resumen

  • Alasdair speaks to Peter Wohlleben about his new book How Trees Can Save the World.

    Peter Wohlleben is a forester and author who has written over 30 books on ecology and forest management.

    Peter and Alasdair discuss the problems with plantation forests, the power of trees to influence their local ecosystems and what modern forestry gets wrong.

    How Trees Can Save the World was published in March and is available to buy from Harper Collins here.

    Audio engineering by Vasko Kostovski.

    Further reading:

    • 'Climate crisis is exposing hard truths about commercial forestry', Land and Climate Review, 2024
    • 'What should we do if the spruce dies out as our supertree?' [German language], Der Standard, 2024
    • 'After the spruce dieback: Can the forest heal itself?' [German language], National Geographic, 2024
    • 'German forest under severe stress' [German language], Forest Condition Report 2022
    • 'The spruce tree is dying of thirst' [German language], Spektrum.de, 2022

    Click here to read our investigation into the UK biomass supply chain, or watch a clip from the BBC Newsnight documentary.

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