Forests|In addition, the government is making an additional protection package of about 31,000 hectares, which is mainly focused on Lapland and forests that are not cut even now.
Government defines the criteria for old forest very strictly according to the proposal of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.
In addition, the government is making an additional protection package of about 31,000 hectares, which is mainly focused on Lapland and forests that are not cut even now.
Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Sari Essayah (kd) and the Minister of Environment and Climate Kai Mykkänen (kok), however, described the whole thing as historic at the media event organized in the State Council castle on Tuesday.
“This is one of the most significant conservation decisions ever made in Finland. Also compared to the decisions made by the previous government,” Essayah said.
The old forest criteria include, for example, a requirement of 50 cubic meters of rotten wood in southern coniferous forests. Such forests cannot be found on state lands in southern Finland.
Metsähallitus director general Juha Niemelä told HS after the event that about 25,000 hectares of the additional protection package of 31,000 hectares will be found in Lapland, however in the southern part of the Sami area.
The rest are being searched for in Kainuu and North Ostrobothnia.
According to Niemelä, the “main part” of that additional protection already belongs to Metsähallitus’ regional ecological network, which means that those forests are not being felled even now. However, their protection status is getting stronger.
31,000 hectares is coincidentally a thousand hectares more than the conservation package made by the previous red-green government on state lands. According to Minister Mykkänen, this was pure coincidence.
Essayah’s the statement about the historicity of the package is based on an integer.
In his ministry, it has been estimated that the additional protection and the forests found to be protected by the criteria form a total of about 90,000 hectares together with their demarcations.
The forests that end up being protected by the criteria are also mostly found in Lapland.
Minister Mykkänen emphasized that the role of the voluntary protection program Metso is emphasized in the forests of southern Finland.
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