Ongoing logging in Finnish old-growth forests

"ENSO - IN HARMONY WITH NATURE"

ENSO GROUP is one of the biggest buyers of pulp wood and timber from Finnish Forest and Park Service. "We purchase wood only from sources that do not compromise the conservation of biodiversity".

These photographs were taken in harbour of Nurmes, eastern Finland (Northern Karelia) in May 1997. Thousands of cubic metres of timber and pulp wood from old-growth forests were found from the harbour. The oldest Scots pines in the timberyard were over 400 years old.

Photos by the Finnish Nature League / Risto Sauso

SCANDINAVIAN STYLE

State enterprise Forest and Park Service clearcutting old-growth forest in eastern Finland (Northern Karelia), municipality of Valtimo in May 1997. Forest area of Syvalammit was listed in Pan-European IBA-project (IBA for Important Bird Areas) and it was one of the forest areas in province of Northern Karelia which had been proposed to be included in NATURA 2000 - protection programme of EU by Finnish Association for Nature Conservation.

Photos by the Finnish Nature League / Matti Liimatainen, Otso Ovaskainen