Greenpeace claims: Maria Eich's forest is more about profit than nature conservation.
The Bavarian State Forests question the technical expertise of the organization.
Planegg – Forest work around the Maria Eich monastery in Planegg has irritated residents.
They alerted Greenpeace and now there's trouble.
In a recent press release entitled "Forest clearing near Maria Eich", Greenpeace asks: "Where is the real protection in this biologically valuable forest?" committed to the protection of the monastery forest years ago, this is an affront.
Wilhelm Seerieder, head of the Munich forestry operation of the Bavarian State Forests, criticizes the content of the declaration - "that's technical nonsense" - and the approach of the organization.
There can be no talk of clearing, as Greenpeace calls it, says Seerieder.
"A clearing is a removal of the forest."
Ursula Hahn from Greenpeace Munich is outraged: “The fact that many spruce trees remained standing alongside mainly old hardwood trunks only allows the conclusion that the trees that bring in the most profit were taken from the forest.” Seerieder also debunked this accusation: “If If we had been concerned with profit, we would have cut down all the spruce trees.” They were left in the forest as a mixed element.
Also: "40 percent of the usable amount of wood was left on the area, you would never do that if it were about profit."
A local resident contacted him to ensure that footpaths were cleared again after the intervention.
"I couldn't fulfill this wish," says Seerieder.
The treetops were left there instead of being processed into cellulose, chipboard or firewood, because dead wood serves as a habitat for animals.
Wilhelm Seerieder complained: "Greenpeace has not spoken to anyone from the project alliance." The message reached him via the press.
Simply sending out an “unqualified pamphlet” is questionable.
"That's a style that the other nature conservation organizations don't cultivate with us." Greenpeace had the opportunity to talk to him, says Seerieder.
Three members of the Bund Naturschutz took part in a tour during which he explained the intervention in the forest - Greenpeace did not register for it.
And the managing director of the Munich district group of the Bund Naturschutz, forestry graduate Rudolf Nützel, praised the approach on this occasion.
When it turned out in 2015 that the up to 300-year-old "Methusalem Oaks" near the monastery were home to 240 wood beetle species, including 88 species on the Red List and, above all, eight primeval forest relict species such as the "Hermit", the forest owners took immediate action.
Together with the district and the municipality of Planegg, they launched a biodiversity project to ensure the survival of the rare species.
60 hectares of forest were divided into four zones.
The aim of rotation is to ensure that the beetles always find a suitable biotope.
The animals currently live in Zone 1.
Some have already moved to zone 2. In zone 3, which is supposed to offer the beetles a habitat in around 100 years, trees have now been felled to give other trees light.
She's the zone that causes trouble.
Zone 4 is futuristic.
Greenpeace is demanding that the area be designated as a nature reserve and that economic use of the forest be banned.
"I wouldn't mind designating this as a nature reserve.
That would strengthen the project, but it doesn't mean that we behave completely differently," says Seerieder.
“The writers of the letter want something else.
I don't know what."