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A small elasticity in response to the occurrence of bark beetle is, according to an expert from Mendel University in Brno, the reason why the bark beetle can not be eliminated. The state enterprise Forests of the Czech Republic, according to the head of the Institute for the foundation and cultivation of forests Radka Pokorný, had to have an exception to the public procurement law for the effective fight against bark beetle. The situation on Tuesday was governed by a government interdepartmental group.
While formerly a state-owned enterprise employed workers who immediately interfered with attacking trees by bark beetle and, in the event of bark beetle, they also cut off at first glance healthy, but already infested trees nearby, it now works differently. "Forests will find that there is a problem, so they start to compete with the company, and before it can compete, the bark will fly out and the problem will be moved elsewhere, so the consequences will be eliminated." In order to fight effectively with the bark beet, Forests of the Czech Republic orders, "Pokorny said.
Additionally, companies in the competition must pay 10 percent of the contract price, which in the case of large volumes of production can only be met by the largest. However, the Pokorny also pointed out that climate change and resulting drought in the years 2015 and 2017 have contributed to the current situation, contributing significantly to the spread of the beetle.
Burial calamity has affected large forests in the East in particular. Prime Minister Andrej Babiš on Tuesday accused the previous leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture that he did not act in the past. Last week, the Minister of Agriculture dismissed Jiri Milek (for YES) CEO of the Forests of the Czech Republic Daniel Sórád, as the head of the state enterprise, according to the minister, proceeded unconceptively and neglected the situation surrounding the overgrown bark beetle.
In recent years, Czech forests have generally been in poor shape due to the changing climate. The large scale calamity, which is most evident in the East of the Republic, is also expected by the forest expert Ales Erber and spruce monocultures in the Vysocina region. He is aware of todays problems in not using the knowledge of forestry in the 1970s. He also criticized last years system of state forests orders, which de facto liquidates smaller woodworkers because they do not know when and whether they will have a job at all. There are no processing capacities when liquidation is settled.
Bullfighting calamity is, according to the data of the Research Institute of Forestry and Game Management (VÚLHM) and in the neighboring countries. According to them, last year, in the Czech Republic, 2,88 meters of cubic bark beetle fell to one hectare of spruce forest. In Slovakia it was six cubic meters, in Poland 2.5 cubic meters, in Bavaria 3.27 cubic meters and in Austria 2.06 cubic meters.
According to Jan Liška from VÚLHM, Slovakia is most affected by most of Central European states, and the situation has often been out of control. "In southern Germany, nowadays, there is a history of bark beetle calamities, and in Austria the current volumes of bark beetle are historically the highest known values," said Liska at a bark calamity seminar in mid-April in Pruhonice.
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