Aim

To verify ex-opposition/current government claim that ex-government/current opposition devastated Polish forests.

Data

The EU accounts for approximately 5 % of the world’s forests. What is a forest BTW? Land covered with minimum 5 meters height trees and with tree crowns cover minimum 10% area and its minimal size is 0,5 ha (hectare).

Roundwood means all quantities of wood removed from the forest and other wooded land.

  1. for_remov (Roundwood removals by type of wood and assortment; https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/for_remov/default/table?lang=en)

  2. for_vol_efa (Area of wooded land; https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/databrowser/view/FOR_AREA_EFA__custom_672302/bookmark/table?lang=en&bookmarkId=2b089c56-a550-4f87-943e-0989dacf605a)

The tables are via eurostat package. For for_remov the custom data set was created with the following: treespec=TOTAL + bark=UNBK + prod_wd=RW. For for_vol_efa the custom data set was created with the following: indic_fo=FOR + stk_flow=STK_CL

Method

To assess if PL production was excessive we compare it to German’s one (our nearest neighbour) and to the (almost) all other countries from Eurostat.

Roundwood production

As share of available stock

Result

Ex-opposition/current government claim was false