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FINLAND (Upper Lapland). 2006.
A label from the company Metsähallitus is marked on logs recently felled in an area called “Mutarjavi.” Information on the label includes where the logs are located, the destination, the client and the lumberjack’s name. Some of the trees felled were over 500 years old.
The life-style of the only indigenous people of Northern Europe, the Sámi, is being threatened by the unlawful logging of the forests in Finnish Lapland they need to herd their reindeer.
Traditional reindeer herding is key to the Sámi way of life and yet the rights of the Sámi to do this are being violated by the logging carried out by the state-owned company in charge of forestry. In addition, the environmental impact of the logging is immense. One of the oldest forests in Europe is being destroyed.
The Sámi herders have filed a number of law suits against the logging but to no meaningful effect. They have also made appeals to the United Nations Human Rights’ Committee, which concluded in the case of one of the herding cooperatives, that any additional logging in their area would be considered a violation of Sámi indigenous rights.
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