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The government will also transform 21 state forestry companies into nonprofit entities, recruit new managers on one-year contracts, and reduce commercial logging in protected forests, where logging currently takes place in 90% of protected woodland despite 42% of Hungary’s forests having some form of protection.
According to news outlet Telex, Minister of the Living Environment László Gajdos said the government aims to end clear-cutting in all protected forests, increase forested areas through tree planting, and gradually reduce the number of biomass power plants supplied with wood from state forests by one facility each year.
He also noted that maintaining the recently expired logging moratorium could have affected about 100,000 timber industry workers, while 15% of timber harvested in state for ests is currently exported.
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