L-5. Kirakka, Hammastunturi reindeer herding co-operative

Finding: old-growth forest logging allowed and planned; violation of FFCS criterion 36: Safeguarding of the Sámi people?s traditional means of livelihood and culture.

The Kirakka forest is directly attached to the Hammastunturi Wilderness Area. The FPS is planning to log both inside the Wilderness Area and outside it in Kirakka. Logging has taken place in Kirakka since the mid-1990's despite of the opposition of the reindeer herders. In the spring of 2000 the FPS conducted several loggings in an area covering hundreds of hectares of important winter pastures.

Source of information: The Finnish Nature League, interviews and field trips

Probable buyers of the timber: Metsäliitto, StoraEnso, Vapo Timber

 

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