10 years from Rio

Finnish Nature League (FNL) wants to remind authorities that despite the 1992 Rio Convention, old-growth forest logging continues and that concrete action is needed now.

Governmental delegations from all over the world are at the moment gathering in the Hague to join the Ancient Forest Summit.

FNL appeals to the minister of finance Sauli Niinistö so that the Rio convention would finally be implemented in Finnish forests and forestry. In order to protect all the valuable forests, a new financing programme has to be made.

The profit target of state enterprise Forest and Park Service (FPS), has to be lowered. The FPS is the main logger of Finnish old-growth forests. Old-growth forest logging continues as long as the profit target of FPS remains too high.

 

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Ministry of Finance, Helsinki April 12, 2002

Forest and Park Service, Tikkurila, April 5, 2002