Environmental campaign groups urge European Investment Bank to halt proposed loan to Croatian Forests
Biofuelwatch, Fern, Earth Thrive, and the Croatian environmental NGO Green Squad, on March 19, 2026, sent an open letter to the Secretariat of the European Investment Bank (EIB), urging them to stop a proposed loan to Croatian Forests. The groups warn that EIB funding for Croatian Forests would be incompatible with the Bank’s own policies for three […]
Press release: How USKOK Became a Branch Office of Hrvatske šume d.o.o.
Since 2018, the Green Squad has been systematically exposing the organized devastation of state forests in Croatia and unlawful operations within the state-owned company Hrvatske šume d.o.o. By 2023, six extensive and well-documented complaints were submitted to the State Attorney’s Office, comprising 867 pages and 192 annexes, clearly demonstrating illegal activities, multimillion-euro damage, and links […]
We Will Not Give Up Land, Water, and Air for the Profit of Mega Poultry Farms
Green Squad clearly and unequivocally states: Croatia must not become a zone of concentrated industrial poultry production whose only real objectives are rapid profit and the export of highly processed products, while local communities bear the environmental, health, and economic consequences. In the Sisak-Moslavina County and the City of Ivanić-Grad area, a total of 20 […]
Croatia Is Buried in Waste, We Are Becoming the EU’s Dumping Ground
There is no person who has not seen how devastated our forests are. In the Green Squad, we studied and reported these devastations for eight years and unequivocally established that this is a state plan by which excessive logging was planned in papers and documents. After that, they favored private entrepreneurs so that they could […]
Global Recognition for the Green Squad: Invitation to the UN Climate Change Conference COP 30
The Green Squad has received an official invitation to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2025 – COP 30, to be held in Brazil from November 10 to 21, 2025, under the auspices of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). According to the organizers, COP 30 represents a pivotal moment in the international climate […]
Croatian Forests Narrowly Miss Out on Winning the Title of Europe’s Corporate Bully of the Year
The state-owned company Hrvatske šume d.o.o. (Croatian Forests Ltd.) made it to the shortlist for the prestigious 2025 European SLAPP Competition in the “Corporate Bully of the Year” category. The competition is traditionally organized by the international coalition CASE, which is committed to supporting and standing in solidarity with individuals facing lawsuits, persecution, or any […]
Report on new clear cuttings
During the past years, we have visited forests in Croatia countless times, where we almost daily received reports of large-scale clear-cutting. We conducted on-site inspections of the forest conditions at the locations pointed out by our activists and warned about the immeasurable damage that would be inflicted on the entire forest fund and overall biodiversity […]
The Government of the Republic of Croatia has carried out a coup d’état because of the Croatian Forests Ltd.!
By enacting the Regulation amending the Forestry Act, which became legally binding upon its publication in the Official Gazette on September 1, 2019, the Government of the Republic of Croatia violated the constitutionally established principles of the separation of powers and formallycommitted a coup d’état.
Questionable Delay In Implementing The Second National Forest Inventory
According to legal provisions, the Second National Forest Inventory in the Republic of Croatia was supposed to be completed by the end of 2019, and its results were to be publicly available no later than December 31, 2020. However, even in 2024, the results are still not available!