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42% of South Tyrol is covered with forest.

The forest is a habitat and affords protection, it is a place of peace, of wilderness, but also an important economic factor. It is the source of a clean, sustainable energy – the indigenous raw material wood..

The biological closed cycle

Wood saves energy: it is constantly growing back – with the CO2 in the air, water and the energy of sunlight.

Wood is CO2 neutral. When wood is burnt, only the amount of CO2 is released that the tree extracted from the atmosphere by means of photosynthesis during the course of its growth. The CO2 balance therefore stays level. If the timber were not used and left to rot in the forest, the same amount of CO2 would escape into the atmosphere.