Sanni Seppo News Today

More than 70% of Finland is covered in forests. Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo invite us to see what such a staggering statistic looks like up close.

World Forestry Center presents the art exhibition “Tree People,” featuring photography of Ritva Kovalainen and Sanni Seppo, who illuminate the sacred connection between people and trees.

How did you end up writing for a newspaper?  Actually, the late, great Herald features writer Anne Simpson approached me in the 1980s, when I was presenting a daily current affairs programme called Speaking Out. She suggested that with the volume of information I was ploughing through every day, I should find column-writing relatively easy. That started me writing Herald columns - though, an edict from the BBC soon stopped them. Later I left broadcasting permanently to write, campaign ...