Logging in Malahvia old-growth forests, April 2006 Malahvia in northeastern Finland is an old-growth forest area, which has been classified by governmental research centre as ecologically valuable old-growth forest. Despite of this, Finnish government´s forestry enterprise Metsahallitus is logging in the area and StoraEnso Oulu mill is pulping the wood from habitats of red-listed species. What is Malahvia old-growth forest - read background here (PDF) |
Photo 1: Forwarder moving wood from logging site to roadside Click the thumbnail for bigger image |
Photo 2: Greenpeace protest in the logging site Click the thumbnail for bigger image |
Photo 4. Roadside pile of pulp birch wood with StoraEnso Oulu mill number code in it Click the thumbnail for bigger image |
Photo 5. Roadside pile of pulp pine wood with StoraEnso Oulu mill number code in it Click the thumbnail for bigger image |
Photo 6. Roadside piles of pulp pine wood for StoraEnso Oulu mill Click the thumbnail for bigger image |