CF-2. Heinä-Suvanto, Viitasaari

Finding: logging in a forest of high conservation value allowed, presence of threatened species ignored.

Large clearcuts were conducted in a state-owned mature spruce forest by the Forest and Park Service in the early winter of 2000. About 45 hectares of forests next to a Natura 2000 reserve were clearcut.

The area was inhabited by threatened red-breasted flycatcher (Ficedula parva) and flying squirrel (Pteromys volans), as well as by three-toed woodpecker (Picoides tridactylus), pygmy owl (Claucidium passerinum), great grey owl (Strix nebulosa) and greenish warbler (Phylloscopus trochiloides).

Source of information: The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation, field trips, discussions with the Regional Environment Centre.

 

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