Action at Brataskogen Forest in Sweden

A GP activist being carried out by a police officer. Greenpeace has been safeguarding the Swedish ancient forest for three weeks which is due for logging operations this morning.

Unique identifier: GP01BO

Type: Image

Shoot date: 09/04/2002

Locations: Brataskogen, Göteborg, Scandinavia, Sweden

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Dick Gillberg

Size: 1440px × 2160px 1015KB

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 try 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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