Opinion|Reader’s opinion
The law on Nuuksio National Park must be reformed if the national park is to be expanded.
in Espoo and the connection of land owned by Helsinki located in Vihti to the Nuuksio National Park is currently being investigated.
More specifically, the areas are Pirttimäki, Karjakaivo, Luukki, Vaakkoi and Salmi. As recreational areas, these areas are already a very important part of the nature experience for many people near the capital region through orienteering, hiking, skiing and other ways of enjoying nature.
Areas also play an important role for hunting ungulates along busy roads. The hunting rights of the areas owned by the city are practically leased as driving areas to local hunting clubs. You can use them to a large extent as they are now, although you can’t shoot ungulates. As large forest properties, they connect several smaller private lands and thus form a unified hunting area required by deer and elk permits. Without hunting rights on these properties, many private lands remain fragmented, and deer and elk hunting cannot continue on them. Currently, it is not possible to lease hunting rights to hunting clubs in Nuuksio National Park.
Law From Nuuksio National Park (118/1994) is very high-level. More specifically, prohibited and permitted activities in Nuuksio National Park are regulated by the Decree on Nuuksio National Park (119/1994). The law now reads: “The area of the Nuuksio National Park is approximately 1,620 hectares.” After the law was written, areas have already been added to the national park so that the current area of the park is more than 5,000 hectares. The annexation of the areas, which is now being prepared, is increasing the area of the park by about 3,000 hectares. The law therefore no longer corresponds to the current situation and especially to a situation in which the national park would be expanded again.
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On the basis of traffic safety, the continuation of hunting ungulates should be written into the law.
In newer ones, such as Teijo and Selkämere National Parks, for example, hunting of certain species is allowed in the national park area. The same should be recorded in the new law on Nuuksio National Park. The regulation of white-tailed deer and elk stocks will become impossible along the congested roads of Southern Finland, if the Nuuksio park continues to expand and the legal text is not changed from the current one.
On the basis of traffic safety, the continuation of hunting ungulates should be written into the law. The hunting of non-native animals should also be allowed in the national park area, as the spread of raccoons and minks endangers the native ground-nesting bird species in particular.
Also navigators in the capital region suffer from this expansion. The areas in question have been one of the most important places of order for the evening races and the Firmaliiga. With the expansion of the park, the orienteering hobby in the capital region would also be in danger of experiencing a big crash, unless its future is secured in the new legal text.
The law on Nuuksio National Park must be opened for rewriting in its entirety at the latest in connection with this regional merger that is being prepared. Under the current legal text, the expansion of Nuuksio should not be promoted.
Jukka Kirjavainen
hunter, orienteer and trail runner
Vantaa
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