Finnish governmental forestry enterprise Metsähallitus started construction of roadlines leading into the planned logging sites in the Intact Forest Landscape of Pokka-Pulju in Finnish Lapland on January 2007. Logging in the area started in February.

Forests of Pokka-Pulju are intact virgin old-growth forests in their natural state. They have never been logged before. Over 500 occurrences of red-listed species have been found from the intact forests of Pokka-Pulju. Finnish government has now started industrial logging in this pristine area. Intact forest landscape is destroyed for the needs of Finnish pulp and paper industry.

Lemmenjoki National Park, Pulju wilderness protection area and unprotected forests of Pokka-Pulju together form a roadless area of over 3294 km2. The threatened part of the area, Pokka-Pulju is 130 km2 of old-growth forests, mires and treeless hills.

Wood logged from the Northern Finnish old-growth forests is sold to Botnia (owned by UPM and M-Real) and Stora Enso.

The wood from Pokka-Pulju is being transported to Botnia mills in Kemi. According to Botnia: "we manufacture ecologically and ethically sustainable pulp from certified Finnish timber. Paper manufactured from such pulp has a healthy heart." M-Real Kemiart mill is processing old-growth forest pulp into kraftliner for consumer packaging, for products such as Kemiart Ultra.

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