I recommend reading the entire description of the video, which also includes an outline of the video with timestamps. Sometimes I add information for better understanding.
I edited the interviews, which are 6 hours long, into a two-hour video. I tried to put the most important things at the beginning. These are interviews from 3.5.2018, 16.1.2019, 13.2.2019.
A close friend of Minister Mičovský, a true conservationist, forester, and expert on the protection of the capercaillie, Eng. Stanislav Bystriansky, comments on the topic of saving the capercaillie. Bystriansky criticizes fake conservationists who “protect” nature only for money and due to EU funds, or due to dilettantish or sectarian ideology. He criticizes the PROGRAM FOR THE CONSERVATION OF THE CAPERCAILLIE (Tetrao urogallus Linnaeus, 1758) for the years 2018–2022 http://www.sopsr.sk/files/PZ-hluchana.pdf
Bystriansky prepared an expert opinion for the Ministry of Agriculture on the fake conservationists’ pamphlet at a time when Mičovský was not yet the minister. Bystriansky also proposes correct solutions for saving the capercaillie, which will really help it. He is also the author of an ecological conservation project for the return of the moose to Slovak nature.
00:00 Bystriansky recalls Mičovský as they were staying overnight at the cottage. In the older Nature 2000, experiences from the Bavarian Forest were cited, where the Germans found that the lack of supplies was harmful to the capercaillie. Later, under very mysterious circumstances, the State Nature Protection turned 180 degrees. Example: in the taiga, the capercaillie thrived in clearings. An overpopulated bear destroys anthills, which are the basis of the capercaillie’s diet.
07:00 Ing. Dušan Slávik, former director of the Poľana Protected Landscape Area, on non-intervention. Ing. Milan Dolňan, chairman of the Slovak Chamber of Forestry. The capercaillie thrived most with small-scale clear-cutting. Overpopulated bears vs. anthills. Predators, overpopulated ravens, birds of prey, jays. Slávik on forester’s lodges. Dolňan: they want to drive out hunters, will the army and police suppress predators?
17:35 13.2.2019 excerpts from the media about a possible EU infringement due to the capercaillie
24:50 Ing. Igor Viszlai – Chairman of the Regional Forestry Chamber Banská Bystrica responds. Fake “conservationists” have deceived Brussels. Bystriansky: on the approach to the bark beetle calamity in the past and now, and on the 5th degree of protection in national parks. How he got the opportunity to do an opposing assessment, he was commissioned by the Union of Non-State Forest Owners. On the experience with the capercaillie in Norway. About Mičovský. On the experiences of old foresters who remember the good old days when there were large numbers of capercaillies. Anthills. About childhood. Bystriansky announced a competition to Mičovský: 10 EUR for one found anthill. On the numbers of capercaillies throughout history. The keeping of sheep and cattle has a beneficial effect on the capercaillie population: the production of droppings supports earthworms and worms, which are food for the capercaillie. Droppings attract beetles, which are food for the capercaillie. The bear also feeds on bumblebee nests.
54:40 Non-intervention vs. processing of subcortical calamity. What is its impact on the capercaillie? Capercaillie protection strategy in Austria. Forest roads as a biocorridor for the capercaillie. Clearings. The capercaillie was most often observed under power lines and on forest roads – these are the places where hunters abroad most easily encountered the capercaillie.
1:00:23 Bystriansky: nature-friendly management (=selection method) as a strategy for protecting the capercaillie. This is not possible without a dense road network. Nature-friendly management does not originate from Switzerland, but was practiced by our ancestors long ago. It is not a new discovery by scientists. Forests as a source of financial income from property taxes for the municipality. The Slovak strategy for saving the capercaillie from 2018 does not include nature-friendly forest management, which is insane. Solutions to help the capercaillie. Introduce financial rewards for hunting capercaillie predators. A special predator of the capercaillie is the wild boar, which likes to feast on capercaillie eggs and meat. Inventory of anthills. Landowner’s access to hunting (which paradoxically is not possible so far). Introduce feeding of forest fowl. Mowing meadows and planting trees that are helpful to the capercaillie. Wasted money. Absurd situation in the Bobrovec forest association – ban on fire protection measures due to a protected bird area. Bystriansky on harsh verbal attacks from fake conservationist activists during discussions with them.
1:20:00 Igor Viszlai on the issue of protection levels in national parks. The vast majority of their territory consists of the second and third levels of protection, which are commercial forests. False conservationists consider spruce monocultures to be a suitable habitat for the capercaillie. However, Viszlai disabuses the false conservationists of their misconception. The head of the State Nature Protection said that foresters have launched a frontal attack on logging in the 5th level of protection – mass requests for calamity processing. Viszlai explains what this is about. Poor communication from foresters. Juraj Lukáč from the Vlk civic association. About Ladislav Miko, who is the head of the European Commission Representation in Slovakia, and who was, by the way, a former Minister of the Environment in the Czech Republic. Miko’s opinion is that non-intervention is a panacea. Bystriansky was sorry that Miko has no connection to nature. The demise of the reserve, rare endemic habitats, with unique genetic information due to the overpopulation of the bark beetle. Nowhere is it defined that the only way to protect forests is non-intervention. Not a word about nature-friendly management (= selective logging).
1:30:50 questions. About deceiving Brussels. About Ladislav Mika. About the possibility of a criminal complaint against fake conservationists. About predators. About the wild boar. In TANAP, NAPANTe, hunting predators of the capercaillie is complicated.
1:40:00 The Prales civic association and its head Martin Mikoláš. The very harsh truth about this dubious association. Clear evidence that Mikoláš is capable of doing anything for money. How he changed his mind by 180 degrees within three years. First, the best for the capercaillie was an economic forest with clearings, later, non-intervention is best for him. Mikoláš is a prostitute bought with money. He would sell his own mother for money. It is easier to earn money from non-intervention through EU funds. Saniga on the capercaillie population. The ideal habitat for the capercaillie – what type of forest: up to 33% open areas. In detail about the capercaillie’s food needs.
1:56:33 Pavel Zacharovský from the Low Tatras forest association talks about absolutely shocking information. Some mysterious community of apartment owners from Bratislava anonymously enters proceedings and files complaints with authorities to block remediation measures against the bark beetle. The only meaningful reason why someone does not want to act directly as a natural person under their own name is anonymity. The real person can hide behind the executive of the community, who is paid something and acts as a front man. It is logical that the person responsible for destroying national parks does not want the public to know their real name. He also mentions the Vlk association and its head Juraj Lukáč.
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