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On June 26, 2025, the President of the Czech Republic signed an amendment to Forest Act No. 289/1995 Gazette, 30 years after adoption of the current act. The drafting and discussion of the amendment had evoked much debate and concern about the future of forests in the Czech Republic, particularly in the Chamber of Deputies of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, and had also been accompanied by quite some misinformation. This contribution does not aim to provide an exhaustive list of all changes or comments on them. Instead, we will focus critically on those that were frequently discussed even within circles close to nature conservation community.

In December 2024, the Government of the Czech Republic approved the 8^th amendment to the national list of Sites of Community Importance/Special Areas of Conservation (SCI/SAC) sites, the expert preparation of which had been entrusted by the Ministry of the Environment of the Czech Republic (MoE) in 2021 to the Nature Conservation Agency of the Czech Republic (NCA CR). The amendment responds to requirements of the European Commission (EC) arising from the assessment of the sufficiency of SCI/SAC sites in the Czech Republic to ensure the protection of species and habitats, as reflected in ongoing infringement proceedings.