Metsahallitus

Greenpeace blocks pulp cargo from destroyed forests

Posted by admin — 7 November 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

Greenpeace activists prevent Finnlines freight ship 'Antares' from loading pulp and paper in the Finnish port of Kemi

A huge cargo of pulp and paper made from wrecked ancient forests has been blocked from leaving Finland today by Greenpeace activists.

Article tagged as: europe, finland, lapland, metsahallitus, sami, stora enso

No respite for Finland's ancient forests

Posted by admin — 16 June 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

Female bear and her young in old-growth Finnish forest

Metsähallitus, the Finnish state-owned logging company, has unilaterally terminated all negotiations with the Sami reindeer herding co-operatives and has said that the logging moratorium on 90,000 hectares of important reindeer grazing forests is over. Logging could restart as early as August.

Article tagged as: destructive logging, finland, metsahallitus, sami, stora enso

Greenpeace secures temporary moratorium in Finland

Posted by admin — 25 April 2005 at 8:00am - Comments

The Forest Rescue Station departs from Inari , Lapland

In May Greenpeace closed our Forest Rescue Station (FRS) located at Inari, Lapland, having achieved our objective of temporarily ending logging on valuable forest lands and in anticipation of talks on the future of the forests that were scheduled for June.

Article tagged as: authors, book campaign, destructive logging, finland, forest rescue station, metsahallitus, sami

Authors visit threatened Finnish ancient forests

Posted by admin — 2 March 2005 at 9:00am - Comments

10 young Sàmi people and Greenpeace volunteers use charcoal on a frozen river to say 'enough' to the Finnish Government

A group of Europen writers have arrived at our Forest Rescue Station, situated 300 kilometres norh of the Arctic Circle in northern Finland, to see for themselves the effect of relentless logging on the last Sàmi reindeer forests. The Sàmi are indigenous reindeer herders who rely on Lapland's remaining old-growth forests to provide vital food for their herds during the cold winter months. The reindeer forests have been reduced piece by piece by the government's own logging company, Metsähallitus, which carries out most of the logging in Lapland.

Article tagged as: authors, book campaign, finland, forest rescue station, metsahallitus, sami
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