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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.

Protesters. but as even the chief himself said, this is a small group. this is also within this defend the forest movement, there are no leaders. so people go off and do their own thing. that doesn't make them justifiable. but i do think that, you know, you keep using these words violent, violent, violent, violent. and it gives the impression -- the only violence or the only acts of violence against people that i saw were actually police tackling protesters. >> hm, and you've been there, you've been watching this unfold. so what do you make of this, juliette? >> so let's put a little context f...