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Do you have any evidence to back up this claim? I just quickly checked the Wikipedia links and it says 29% of German forests are government owned. 19% corporat
by mrjangles 5y ago
Do you have any evidence to back up this claim? I just quickly checked the Wikipedia links and it says 29% of German forests are government owned. 19% corporate owned and 50% private owned. Assuming nowhere near every single person that owns private property with a forest on it is busy chopping it down, it is safe to assume these figures would be at least close to accurate.
- piceas 5y agoThe following document helps a bit. I could believe that 15% of forests in Germany (regardless of ownership and access) are "very semi-natural". I'm not so convinced that the next 21% of "semi-natural" forests just means that they haven't been logged or actively managed for a generation or so. The document has some stats on ownership. The Forests in Germany Selected Results of the Third National Forest Inventory https://www.bmel.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/Publications/ForestsInGermany-BWI.pdf https://www.bmel.de/SharedDocs/Downloads/EN/Publications/For... page 22 "By nature, Germany is beech country and if left to nature, today’s forest area would be made up of 75 % beech forests and 17 % oak forests. Where beech forests would naturally grow, today only 21 % beech forests stand;" "15 % of the forests have a very semi-natural composition and another 21 % a semi-natural composition of tree species"