A few hundred people have turned out to protect historic century-old ginkgo trees that are likely to be chopped down under a controversial redevelopment for a beloved Tokyo park district.
A few hundred people have turned out to protect historic century-old ginkgo trees that are likely to be chopped down under a controversial redevelopment for a beloved Tokyo park district.
The previous poster talks about trees in general. So did I. I even clarified that I’m against chopping down these particular trees. The wood you use in your day to day love most certainly doesn’t stem from plantations. A part of it yes, but that also varies a lot depending on where in the world you are.
Here in the nordics at least i genuinely don’t think any wood doesn’t come from plantations, either it’s plantation or you’re not allowed to chop it down for lumber.
To be fair pretty much every forest is a plantation in Sweden
https://www.svt.se/nyheter/vetenskap/striden-om-den-svenska-skogen-naturliga-skogar-haller-pa-att-forsvinna https://www.naturskyddsforeningen.se/artiklar/sanningen-om-den-svenska-skogen/
In Germany we have got an integrated system with small pockets of protected forest inside leger forests. However, in opposition to most of the world, we don’t do clear cuts or the like, except for big calamities. we would usually fell single trees inside a forest and have the others left over for a later date or generations. You can get a year old sapling next to a 300 year old oak and everything in between right next to each other. Naturally due to historical over use, we haven’t got any old growth forests like in Ukraine or Poland, but we certainly preserve our ecological functions.
And yet his rule should apply. We shouldn’t fell trees that are older than we are. Plantations only get to 10 years of age for most wood, maybe 15.
While i agree with you, i have to note that trees generally reach the age of about 30-40 before harvesting, at least stuff like spruce which is what is mostly grown in sweden.
The whole defining feature of forestry is that you harvest stuff planted by your dad when he was a kid.
Maybe where you live. To get a usable tree you need at least 40years around here, to get a tree you can build with takes around a hundred years….