After reaching an agreement with a state-owned forestry company on preservation of old forests in Lapland, Greenpeace Nordic has decided to withdraw from Finnish Lapland and move its target area to Indonesia.
According to the website Forest.fi, a long standing dispute between state-owned forestry company Metsähallitus and Greenpeace concerning old wilderness-like forests in Central, or Forest Lapland was over when an agreement was reached in the end of October.
The agreement covers some 44.200 hectares of forest land. Of them, 6.600 hectares will remain available for normal multiple-use forestry. 2.700 hectares remain in restricted forestry use, and 35.000 hectares are excluded from forestry operations.
The solution prevents future felling of 1.7 million cubic meters of wood.
The final agreement was reached in a steering group which consists of, in addition to Metsähallitus and Greenpeace, the Regional Council of Lapland, Lapland Regional Environment Centre, Finnish Reindeer Owners’ Association, and representatives from the forest industry and the Sámi Parliament.
