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Finnish logging HQ occupied

Feature story | April 16, 2002 at 0:00

Yesterday Greenpeace activists began a five day protest at the state-owned Finnish Forest Park Services headquarters near the Finnish capital.

80,000 Hectares of Finnish Forest Protected in Landmark deal

Press release | December 10, 2010 at 18:08

Helsinki, Finland, December 10, 2010 – In a significant win for forest protection, 80,000 hectares of pine forest in northern Finland has been declared off-limits to industrial logging following an eight-year campaign by Greenpeace and Finland’s...

Finland forests

Feature story | October 17, 2003 at 0:00

Time is running out for the old-growth forests of Finland. The vast majority of Finland's valuable old-growth is owned by the state and logged by the state-owned company Metsähallitus. Metsähallitus' logging practices include clearcutting,...

Temporary halt to logging of Finnish ancient forests

Feature story | July 14, 2003 at 0:00

Metsahällitus, the Finnish state-owned forestry enterprise that is logging Finnish old growth forests, has agreed not to log in any of 476 areas of forest currently in dispute until urgent talks take place with environmental groups in Finland on...

Lapland : State of Conflict - How the Finnish government is abusing the forest rights...

Publication | March 2, 2005 at 0:00

The Finnish State often claims that in the Inari municipality of northern Lapland, some 40% of forests have been formally protected and that therefore no new areas warrant protection. What they fail to mention is that these protected areas are...

Quarterly - 2010.3&4

Background | February 14, 2011 at 10:37

Victory for Finland's forests. Read how a 10-year long campaign to protect Finland's ancient forests has met with success.

Finland's biggest chemical catastrophe in history

Blog entry by Brian Fitzgerald | November 9, 2012 15 comments

Greenpeace Finland is bearing witness and taking samples at a toxic spill that began on Sunday in the north of the country. The Talvivaara metal mine, owned and operated by Talvivaara Mining Company plc, has been leaking water...

Victory for Greenpeace and reindeer in Lapland

Feature story | August 25, 2009 at 0:00

After seven years of Greenpeace pressure, government-owned logging company Metsähallitus has agreed to leave the tall trees of northern Lapland standing, and with them, the livelihood of the Sámi people.

Nuclear plant delayed

Feature story | August 10, 2007 at 0:00

Designers of Finland's Olkiluoto 3 nuclear reactor knew as far back as 2001 that it must be able to withstand an airplane attack. That's what the Finnish public was promised when the construction license was issued. Yet today, the company...

Olkiluoto nuclear plant protest continues

Feature story | May 30, 2007 at 0:00

On Monday, activists blockaded the entrance to the Olkiluoto nuclear plant construction site - briefly shutting down a project already massively over budget and plagued by more than one thousand reported breaches of safety standards.

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