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Hunting Award of the Year 2025
“Green colonialism” in the Nordic countries and the Sámi people
The wheel of samsara in Indian forestry
Survey: 34% of Latvian companies are not concerned about cyberattacks

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“Why are the trees here so big?”
X-mas hangover!
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The Latvian and His Forest
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Court rules in the state's favour in dispute over compensation for forest owners

Ogre city residents call on “Rīgas meži” to halt logging in the city's outlying forests during the bird nesting season

Trees at the stadium mutilated in the name of beauty. “OC Liepāja” to be penalised for unprofessional topping of lime trees

Despite loud promises to give up Russian gas by 2027, imports into the EU rose by 18% last year

New nature reserves to be created to protect valuable grasslands

New specially protected nature territory established to protect a rare bat – the western barbastelle

Green activists' antics: Finland's parliament building sprayed with red paint in a "protest action" against peat extraction

The forest sector says: “NO to a clear-felling tax!”

The provision on felling trees of smaller diameter is found incompatible with the Constitution

Five new nature reserves have been created in South Kurzeme

A Latvian nature park is paying a fine to the state because it does not meet absurd requirements that are traumatic for the animals

After the imposition of sanctions, Russian wood reaches Estonia through third countries

Dear European Union, the science is clear: burning wood for energy is harmful!

A case has been brought in the Constitutional Court on the provisions reducing the diameter for final felling

Why are fruit growers in the Liège region of Belgium cutting down their orchards?

To comply with EU rules, the Netherlands will close about 3,000 farms

A waste container has been tipped into a lake by a popular recreation spot

A fuel shortage could be a “blessing” for the climate, says the secretary general of the World Meteorological Organization

Not listening to the sector’s representatives: the government lightly decides to give up using peat in energy

Renewable resources can also be unfriendly to the environment. How to move to them carefully

Climate activists hope that stricter EU legislation will protect member states’ forests if governments do not

The rights of chimpanzees. “...recognising rights would mean a radical change in the relationship between people and animals...”

Virginijus Sinkevičius: “The way we... must change”
A vandalised architectural monument: the Remte hunting tower
Cēsis municipality is also under VARAM’s magnifying glass...
Entering the age of smelly books
Jūrmala council ignores residents’ objections and plans the destruction of 202,000 m2 of forest
...which could be translated as
The European Commission wants to limit the use of wood in energy production
The European Commission proposes strengthening environmental protection with the help of criminal law
Methodological guidelines have been produced on how to speak correctly from now on
In the new season it is planned to allow only ailing lynx, or those dangerous to the public, to be hunted
Why is the historic chestnut avenue on Vienības gatve being destroyed?
Andris Vilks’s vision: Latvia as a rubbish bin Eldorado???
A hunting ban on lynx is being quietly prepared
A draft European regulation threatens peat with disqualification
VVD: the boat houses on Kolka beach could also have been placed lawfully
Over 30 years several success stories have gone up in smoke in Latvia
The Environmental Consultative Council wants to limit the fight against invasive species
Can local government land be turned into a desert?
The Ventspils-Liepāja stretch of track is closed
Deception? Step by step. A handbook for entrepreneurs
Amendments to the Protection Zone Law have put landowners in Dundaga municipality in the role of hostages
VARAM: the goals of the European Climate Law are already put into practice in Latvia
Without a crystal-clear reputation, dispossession of property will loom
In Zemgale they want to demolish the oldest wooden manor building in the Baltics
Is money promised to someone missing from the budget? It is not! More than 600 thousand euros will have to be allocated to bird watching!
Wolves and a dog
Another hemp scandal in Dekšāres parish: a farmer is forbidden to sell tea
The moral terrorists are stepping up the pace
Why in the long term we can be the losers
Who would that benefit?
On things one cannot understand
Propaganda of lies: what is its true aim?
On the slandering of Latvia’s forest sector
Contrary to the promises, they receive new restrictions