Municipalities located in conservation areas have long claimed some form of compensation for the loss of tax revenue. In 2014 it was decided to abolish property tax relief on protective forests.33 This will translate into an additional PLN 60 million transferred to municipal budgets from 2015 (The Voice of the Forest, 2014). It is also less harmful for economic growth (Johansson et al., Taxes on land values (or a proxy) do not depress or distort wealth creation and are easy to assess, cheap to collect and hard to avoid.