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Finland’s
forests are among the most intensively managed in the world.
Finland
has some 20 million hectares of forests. Only about 4,1 % of the
forest area is protected. In the southernmost Finland only some
one percent of forests are protected. In the campaign area (see map)
of environmental ngos, the forest protection rate is about two percent.
The Finnish
forest management model has resulted in the rapid conversion of natural
forests into monotonous industrial forests that lack many key features
of boreal forest ecosystems.
Forestry is
the most serious threat to species survival in Finland. Unless
there is a significant increase in the amount of protected forest
area and a parallel improvement in the standards of forest management,
hundreds of species face extinction within the next 50 years.
Sustainable
development and protection of biodiversity are now popular phrases
in the public communications of the Finnish forestry sector. But there
remains a huge gap between rhetoric and reality.
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How
much, how to? Practical tools for
forest conservation.
Europe must protect at least ten per cent of its forests from
any form of logging, and manage the rest in a much more wildlife-friendly
way, if species such as Capercaillie and White-backed Woodpecker
are not to dwindle towards extinction.
This
is the key message of the book, How Much, How To? – Practical
Tools for Forest Conservation, published by BirdLife International.
The
book draws together many recent studies of forest ecology, and
practical conservation programmes around Europe, to make direct
legal and policy recommendations to all European nations about
protecting forests.
How
much, how to? -report [pdf 1,9 MB]
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Certifying
Extinction? An Assessment of the Revised Standards of the
Finnish Forest Certification System
Finland's
forests are among the most intensively managed in the world.
The Finnish forest management model has resulted in the rapid
conversion of natural forests into monotonous industrial forests
that lack many key features of boreal forest ecosystems. Forestry
is the most serious threat to species survival in Finland. Unless
there is a significant increase in the amount of protected forest
area and a parallel improvement in the standards of forest management,
hundreds of species face extinction within the next 50 years.
Forest
certification could be an effective way to improve the ecological
and social sustainability of forest use. However, 95% of Finland's
forests have been certified according to the inadequate Finnish
Forest Certification System standard, with the result that there
has been little change to the destructive practices that have
caused the current degradation of forest biodiversity.
Certifying extinction? -report [pdf 2 MB]
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of destruction
Analysis on the implementation of the Convention
on Biological Diversity in the protection of forest ecosystems
in Finland.
Protection
measures have been strongly limited by economic demands and,
in state forests, by profit targets that inhibit planning of
reserve networks based on ecological grounds. Logging of high
conservation value forests is allowed to continue despite strong
scientifi c evidence against it. In Finland, "sustainability"
of forestry still implies, fi rst and foremost, sustainability
in the supply of timber to the industry.
Policies
of destruction -report [pdf 0,8 MB]
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Palaako
elävä metsä? A Comprehensive
Conservation Programme for Finland’s Forests in the 21st Century
This
book is more profound version of How much, how to? The book
is
in Finnish language with English summaries.
Most
of the English texts on this website are from this book. These
you will find on the navigation bar on the right.
Palaako
elävä metsä? -book [pdf 1,7 MB]
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