The report highlights three types of logging practices in Estonia that are particularly harmful
ecologically and for which the report’s researchers could find enough information for analysis:
- logging in high conservation value forest (HCVF) areas
- logging in watersheds, and
- logging in peatland forests.
Based on the findings presented in this report, it can be concluded that the production of wood
pellets in Estonia regularly fails to comply with the Dutch criteria for sustainable biomass. More
specifically, in the three main chapters of this report, evidence is presented that destructive logging
is taking place in high conservation value forest habitats, on watersheds and in peatland forest –
ecosystems that the Dutch criteria aim to protect.