Finding:
old-growth forest logging planned.
A clearcut
plan of almost 20 hectares in the southern part of the famous area
of Malahvia. In the studies ordered by
the FPS and performed by environmental authorities the area was found
to be exceptionally valuable. The studies concluded that the biological
values of the area can be preserved only by preventing further fragmentation
of the area that would be caused by logging.
Local
people oppose to logging: a petition with a hundred signatures of
local people was submitted to the Ministry of the Environment in February
2000. Several threatened and near-threatened species live in the forests
now planned to be logged.
Source
of information: field trip, FPS´s notification, reports
by environmental authorities.
Probable
buyers of the timber: StoraEnso, UPM-Kymmene. StoraEnso bought
the wood from the earlier logging in the area.
More
information available: a summary of the inventory reports
(appendix 5).
