The session was opened by Mileva Gjurovska, national coordinator of NCEU-MK, who explained in her opening address that we must develop the awareness that we are all responsible for preserving nature, but that this should not reduce the share of competent ministries. Turning to the topic of the sustainable management of forests, she emphasized that we must change the paradigm that we have an abundance of forests and that forests are the greatest wealth we possess, because this is not true, becau ...