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Press release and video reportage 5.6.2007
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================================ Press release and video reportage 5.6.2007 by Media cooperative Signs of Life http://elonmerkki.net ======================================== ==
Illegal logging in Saami forests - The destruction of Saami home area in Finnish Lapland started again
The long lasting forestry conflict in Finnish Lappland is again in a very urgent state. The Finnish state owned company, Metsähallitus, has started large scale logging operations in the home area of indigenous Saami people on the 14th of May, 2007.
These logging have been critisized for the following reasons:
-there is no solution yet for the land ownership conflict between indigenous Saami people and the Finnish state. -the Finnish state has not proven to be the actual owner of the forests that it is logging right now. -the clear-cutting style of logging ancient forests in the extreme north of Europe cannot be accepted from an ecological and micro-climatical point of view. -the loggings destroy the very basis of the culturally important Saami free grazing reindeer herding tradition -the loggings waste the ancient forests and its wood and leave less possibilities for future truly sustainable continuous cover forestry without destructive clear cutting.
Among others Union of Ecoforestry urged Finnish parliament to stop the logging immediately and distributed for parliament groups the documentary movie Last yoik in Saami forests (http://elonmerkki.net). Until now there has not been any public reaction by the Finnish government. The silence in Finnish media also continues.
The director of the movie, Hannu Hyvönen, expressed his feelings about the on-going loggings recently: "It is quite easy for us to update this sad turn-up in the documentary movie, but we cannot update these forests which are now again cutted down."
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This little preview leaves me with the impression that the film is largely emotional manipulation. A chainsaw at night? A noose? Lots of edited-together scenes, but not much in the way of explanation of how the scenes relate to one another or the overall land situation in Finland.
That's my honest reaction; take it FWIW. I haven't seen the film, just this preview, so perhaps my impression is wrong. FYI I'm a middle-aged American.
Traditionally, reindeer herding was done by family in which each family has a somewhat different herd migration route. This leveled out the use of the ecosystem. Americans: please conceptualize this as the nice side of 'regulation'.
agreed. FYI im an american(and im 1/8 saami, and proud!), dont make generalizations about americans being stupid, they always interview american idiots on tv, if u go outside on a weekday in public there will be idiots without jobs walking around.
Sorry, I love the trees, and don't believe we should waste them, but whoever put this film together has never seen where the true Saami live, there aren't trees there, it is tundra and small pines that grow maybe 10 feet in 100 years.
This is in Finland, lappland overlaps Norway, Finland and Sweden, Norwegian lappland (Finnmark) are more tundralike, While I suppose on the finnish and swedish side there is forests
for paper?! these beautiful trees are dying for paper?! if it was housing that would be one thing, but the paper industry has no right to make a profit off of something that does not belong to them, but belongs to the saami people!
Väittäisin metsänhoitajan koulutuksella tajuavani metsätaloudesta jotain ilman Timoakin. Yritin vain tuoda esille muutamia vaihtoehtoisia näkökulmia. Greenpeace kun ei ole näissä asioissa kaikkein neutraalein tiedottaja.
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That's my honest reaction; take it FWIW. I haven't seen the film, just this preview, so perhaps my impression is wrong. FYI I'm a middle-aged American.
FYI im an american(and im 1/8 saami, and proud!), dont make generalizations about americans being stupid, they always interview american idiots on tv, if u go outside on a weekday in public there will be idiots without jobs walking around.