The state enterprise Forest and Park Service clearcuts Laamasenvaara old-growth forest. The forest is situated between Ulvinsalo strict nature reserve and Vilhonpetäikkö old-growth forest protection area. The logging will break the ecological connection between the two protection areas. >>> Press release

"Logging old-growth forests is wrong"

Forest and Park Service is the biggest owner and thus the biggest logger of old-growth forests in Finland.

The next one was a hit. In the morning of Feb. 10, a harvester fell a tree on a young forest activist, who luckily survived with only minor injuries. The police investigates the matter.

Laamasenvaara timber getting ready to be moved to the mills of Stora Enso and UPM-Kymmene.

The Finnish Nature League has appealed to the Finnish forest giants to put an end to the old-growth forest logging. The wood procurement from old-growth forests must stop.

Stora Enso is the biggest client of the state enterprise Forest and Park Service.

The Finnish Nature League monitors the old-growth forest clearcutting in Laamasenvaara and elsewhere in Eastern Finland. The aim is to get Forest and Park Service to give up logging valuable forests.

photos: the Finnish Nature League 2000