Action at Brataskogen Forest

A Greenpeace activist, protesting against logging in old growth forest outside Gothenburg, is carried away by police. Greenpeace has been safeguarding the Swedish ancient forest for three weeks which is due for logging operations this morning.

Unique identifier: GP01PIB

Type: Image

Shoot date: 08/04/2002

Locations: Scandinavia, Sweden

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Maria Grandelius

Size: 1552px × 1258px 291KB

Ranking: ★★★★ (E)

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Forests Action against Vastskog in Sweden

Greenpeace activists guard the forest Brataskogen in Harryda, outside Gothenburg. After a couple of weeks, the company Vastskog started to log, and several teams of Greenpeace activists tried to stop the logging a number of times. The area was once owned by the Swedish state church and their decision to sell it created a lot of attention, since it was considered as a forest worth protecting. During the action, Naturhistoriska Museet i Goteborg made a joint statement with Greenpeace and Svenska Naturskyddsforeningen to protect the forest.

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