Save the Sámi Reindeer Forests: Greenpeace Forest Rescue Station, Inari Finland

September 27, 2006

Photos from planned logging sites in Kessi wilderness

Finnish governmental forestry service Metsahallitus is planning logging in the wilderness forests of Kessi. The buyer of old-growth forest wood is most likely Botnia pulp mill in Kemi, supplying M-Real´s Kemiart mills. See photos taken in planned logging sites.

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Posted by Max at 4:19 PM

Reindeer herders in Inari: most recent negotiations with Metsähallitus failed

Forestry enterprise Metsahallitus has since August been logging in crucially important reindeer grazing forests in Muddusjärvi reindeer herding co-operative´s area. According to the reindeer herders, Metsähallitus did not negotiate about the logging plans and the opinions of the herders were not taken into account.