Species/habitat
91F0 Riparian mixed forests of Quercus robur, Ulmus laevis and Ulmus minor, Fraxinus excelsior or Fraxinus angustifolia, along the great rivers (Ulmenion minoris)

Plant species: Common snowdrop Galanthus nivalis,

Bird species: Black woodpecker Dryocopus martius, Medium spotted woodpecker Dendrocopos medius and other birds affected by felling of large number of hollow trees.

dolnośląskie voivodship, Borough of Kąty Wrocławskie, in the forest along the Bystrzyca river between villages of Małkowice and Skałka.

The works were part of the 10-year plan regardless of the principles of habitat management. Lack of concern for the hollow trees violates the Forestry General Director’s regulation number 11A on the pro-ecological management practices in forestry demanding among others keeping of the hollow trees and the riparian forests. Public consultations in the form of standard Technical-Administrative Comission, no EIA.

The exact size of the damaged area unknown, logging took place in smaller plots connected by straps of forest with fallen trees. According to the observer’s estimation, 3-4 hectares in the 10 hectare forest section which lost its integrity.

Investor
Forestry Unit (Nadleśnictwo) Miękinia,

Circumstances of the abuse
The environmental damage occurred at the turn of 2008 and 2009. The 91F0 riparian old growth, mainly white poplars was felled down. The clearings were tilled destroying dozens of protected plants (Common snowdrop) and planted with row of trees inadequate for the original habitat - alder and in places oaks. In earlier seasons, in the felled trees breeding of birds protected by national and European legislation was recorded – including at least three species of woodpeckers.