No evidence of systematic pre-emptive loggings after notifying landowners of their lands' conservation potential.

ABSTRACT: Landowners can intentionally impair biodiversity values occurring on their land to pre-empt biodiversity protection. This often leads to significant negative effects on biodiversity. We studied whether landowners in Finland engaged in pre-emptive loggings after they were notified that their wooded mires are candidate sites for a mire protection program. After the notification, harvesting rates of the candidate wooded mires were significantly lower compared to harvesting rates of similar but non-candidate wooded mires. Annual and monthly harvesting rates indicated that notifying landowners of the conservation potential did not launch systematic pre-emptive logging behavior. Nevertheless, part of the candidate wooded mires were logged, so some landowners place more weight on other values tha

SUBMITTER: Nieminen E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7782606 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature