October 30, 2005
Metsähallitus ignores court order
On 26th October the district court in Lapland ordered that all logging has to be stopped in the reindeer grazing forests in Nellim, Inari. According to the Finnish National Broadcasting news, Yle, Metsähallitus is not going to stop its logging operations unless it gets an official "final decision" by the rural police chief of Inari.
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Posted by Satu Pitkanen at 11:53 AM
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October 28, 2005
Metsähallitus logs again in reindeer forests
As the moratorium on logging in the mapped forests was terminated in June, the state owned forestry enterprise Metsähallitus has started logging operations in several co-operatives' areas. The first loggings took place in August, and in October the reindeer herding co-operatives found more grazing forests marked for logging.
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Posted by Satu Pitkanen at 10:19 PM
