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PEFC-certified old-growth forest logging in Finland, October 2003 Logging by Finnish governmental forestry enterprise Metsahallitus in the homeland of indigenous Sami people in northernmost Finland. Photographs in this page are from forests of Otsamo, an old-growth forest area important for the reindeer herding livelihood. <<< Back to index /// >>> background materials on reindeer herding and forestry |
| Before: 17 September 2003 | After: 4 October 2003 |
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| 17 September: Finnish NGOs, StoraEnso and reindeer herders in Otsamo start their field excursion to the old-growth forest. From right to left: senior executive vice president Pekka Laaksonen/StoraEnso, chairman Heikki Simola/FANC, reindeer herdsman Antti Morottaja, information officer Mikael Sjövall/Greenpeace | Exactly
same spot on 4th October: Reindeer herdsman Antti Morottaja standing next to a pulp wood pile. Most of the wood logged from the old-growth forests in Finland ends up to pulp and paper production. The biggest buyer of wood logged by Metsahallitus is Stora Enso. |
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