Sign I What else can you do? I BACKGROUND ON FORESTS AND FOREST PROTECTION I Contact I Front page

Publications

• How much, How to? Practical tools for forest conservation by BirdLife [pdf 1,9MB] www.birdlife.net/action/change/europe/forest_task_force/forest_conservation.pdf
• Certifying extinction - This report highlights the problems of the Finnish FFCS-certification system [pdf 1,97 MB]
  www.greenpeace.se/files/2800-2899/file_2866.pdf
• Policies of destruction Analysis on the implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity in the protection of forest ecosystems in Finland [pdf 0,8 MB] www.greenpeace.se/files/1300-1399/file_1318.pdf
  
• Anything goes? -reports introduce the problems of PEFC-forest certification: ecologically important forests being logged
  Anything goes? (summer 1999 - winter 2000) www.pefcwatch.org/finreport/ and
  Anything goes? Follow up (winter 2001) www.pefcwatch.org/finreport2/
• Behind the logo Taiga Rescue Network also assesses the PEFC-certification [pdf 0,4 MB] www.taigarescue.org/_v3/files/pdf/8.pdf
  
• Taiga Rescue Network published in 1999 Last of The Last - Old-Growth Forests of Boreal Europe -report with maps
  Last of the Last -report [pdf 2,3 MB] www.taigarescue.org/_v3/files/pdf/35.pdf and
  Map of the Finnish old-growth forests [pdf 0,3 MB www.taigarescue.org/_v3/files/pdf/17.pdf
• Maintaining biological diversity in Finnish forests. Virkkala & Toivonen. Suomen ympäristö 278. Suomen ympäristökeskus 1999.

Certification links

• PEFCwatch -website is frequently updated with new reports on Finnish Forest certification and it's problems www.pefcwatch.org
• Homepages of Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) (supported by many environmental NGO's too) www.fsc-finland.org
• FSC-certification in Finland www.fsc.org

Some NGO webpages around the World

• The Finnish Nature League forestpages www.luontoliitto.fi/forest
• Greenpeace international forest pages www.greenpeace.org/forests
• Friends of the Earth int'l forest pages www.foei.org/forests/
• Nearly everything about forests: forests.org
• Taiga Rescue Network www.taigarescue.org/
• FERN www.fern.org/
• Many Russian forest NGO's: www.forest.ru
• Sveriges Naturskyddsföreningen: www.snf.se/verksamhet/skog/
• Canadian Forest Action Network www.fanweb.org
• Mostly dealing with tropical (forest) issues: Robin Wood www.robinwood.de
• Norwegian Natur og Ungdom: www.nu.no/naturvern/skog/
• People's forest forum (about GM-trees etc.) elonmerkki.net/forestforum

Forest research material from universities

• Helsinki university: Biodiversity in Boreal Forests www.helsinki.fi/science/biobof/
• Helsinki university: Survival of Species in Fragmented Landscapes www.helsinki.fi/science/fragland/
• Helsinki university Metapopulation Research Group www.helsinki.fi/science/metapop/
• Academy professor Ilkka Hanski's Forest pages www.helsinki.fi/~ihanski/metsa.html

Save the forests by clicking

• Race for the Rainforests rainforest.care2.com/
• The Rainforest Site www.therainforestsite.com/

Great environmental cartoons by Seppo Leinonen www.seppo.net

 

 

• Finland's forests
• Forest protection in Finland
• Forest protection in southern Finland
• The need for forest protection
• The Finnish National Forest Programme
• Metsähallitus, The Finnish National Forest Service
• Proposed Forest Conservation Programme
• Social and Economic Effects of the Proposed Conservation Programme
• Towards sustainable forestry... or not
• Links and publications
  
  
• to the Background index page