Activists halt logging again at Lapland site
The activists are demanding that Metsähallitus stop logging in the area until conservation proposals have been processed by the Ministry of the Environment.
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The activists are demanding that Metsähallitus stop logging in the area until conservation proposals have been processed by the Ministry of the Environment.
A group of protesters disrupted logging operations at Aalistunturi in Kolari, Finland, on Sunday. According to the Forest Movement (Metsäliike in Finnish), five activists from the group are preventing logging on lands administered by the state-owned forest management organisation Metsähallitus. Thi
Forest movement activists have again blocked access to the logging area of Aalistunturi in western Finnish Lapland.
Some ten activists belonging to the same group, the Forest Movement, were detained by police last week.