background information on Finnish old-growth forests
  •  Why protect old-growth forests? Present forest protection network in Finland is inadequate and needs to be improved considerably. Why? Take a look at this page.
    • January 9, 1999 NEWS: Academy professor Ilkka Hanski writes in the main Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat: TOO MUCH OF EXTINCTION DEBT - One thousand species are in danger of disappearing because the old-growth forests of Southern Finland have been fragmented into pieces too small to live in. "If the aim is to prevent the mass extinction of old-growth forest species, all the remaining somewhat natural-state old-growth forests have to be left out of commercial utilization." Read the article translated by FNL.
  • Logging the old-growth forests is not nature protection: leading ecologist of Finland critisizes the Ecological Landscape Planning in article "Only Fragments Remain of Finnish Old-Growth Forests"
  • Finnish state enterprise Forest & Park Service starts loggings in high altitude areas. News from daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat September 27, 1997

    • Finnish Nature League FNL main page