Are croatians forest people?

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  3. So, hi everybody and greetings from Finland.

    This question just came to my mind, as I have been checking out satellite images from Europe. France, Germany, Ukraine, Bulgaria(add: actually Bulgaria had some green in there, let’s replace by Hungary and neighbor Albany) to mention, are huge farming countries with only a few forests left, but your country looks so green and nice.

    I was thinking is it also a mentality or are the forests mainly just rural areas?

  5. We do like our green. When you come in from Hungary or from Serbia, it feels really refreshing to be back. BiH and Slovenia are also foresty, though.

  6. No, only the people of Lika have a reputation as bear-fighting forest people.

    There are 2 reasons for the green areas:

    1. Those are actually small mountains and rolling hills poking out of the Pannonian basin(the green line following the Hungarian border is called Bilogora and the yellow area surrounded by green is the Požega valley surrounded by mountains Papuk,Psunj and Krndija)
    2. Depopulation causing forests to grow on abandoned fields(the areas around Sisak and Karlovac are some of the hardest hit by war and failing industry)

  9. Personal opinions,im no expert

    We have so much forests because no one really invested seriously in Croatia trought centuries.

    Forests are growing because villages got abandoned as population is shrinking.People are leaving remote places because life is tough there.

    We don’t do a clean cut we are selecting trees wich are to be cut,usualy old trees to make place for younger ones.

  11. We’re having less and less true forests and the way forest exploatation works around here I’m afraid this map is getting less green every day cause no one cares and they just flat out devastate huge areas of old forests to sell this enormous natural riches for cheap price abroad (and then we stupidly import finished wood products made with our own lumber).

  13. Croatia is much better off regarding forests than alot of countries BUT there is barely any true wild forests left. Only Gorski kotar and Lika region has them.

    OP mentioned forest culture? Our forest culture is local rednecks cutting forest for firewood and complaining of hard work, 0 respect for nature, if they could cut it all down for profit they would. Our forestry ministry is also doing shitload of illegal cutting, bribes and what not. Luckly they make it hard for common people to just cut forests everywhere BUT themselves are almost to the point of wood based cartel. Quite a few criminal investigations happening from EU protection agencies rn.

    Average croat has no idea what true nature is and thinks walking through a small patch of managed forest is being in nature. In world really really few forests remain. What most people call forests are just parks but not in cities. No wild left.

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