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News Release from: Greenpeace
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Fighting Forest Felling For Paper
Industry
Greenpeace is taking European authors to Lapland to witness how ancient forest are being felled with timber provided to produce paper for the European market.
Greenpeace is taking a group of European authors to Lapland in northern Finland to witness how ancient forest in the Sami territory are being felled with timber provided to produce paper for the European market Greenpeace said it has recently established a forest rescue station in traditional Sami territory and volunteers based at the site have been helping the Sami to demarcate their traditional reindeer herding lands to deter loggers
This article was originally published on Printingtalk on 8 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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Since the rescue station was set up, Xerox has committed to stop buying paper products sourced from the Sami region.
Greenpeace said it is also calling on the UK's top magazine companies including the BBC, EMAP and IPC to stop buying paper from the region.
The authors will tour of some of Lapland's threatened ancient forests, 300 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle.
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The region is home to rare creatures like wolverines, golden eagles and the Siberian jay.
The authors will meet representatives of the indigenous Sami reindeer herders who rely on Lapland's remaining old-growth forests to provide vital food for their herds during the cold winter months.
They will witness their traditional way of life and also be shown how the reindeer forests are being reduced piece by piece by the clear-cutting operations of the Finnish government's own logging company, Metsahallitus, said Greenpeace.
The authors visit will support efforts by the Sami to protect old-growth forests critical to reindeer herding on their traditional territory.
The campaign is being backed by Greenpeace, WWF and the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation.
One of the authors, the UK's Ken Finn, said: "I find it disgraceful that the Finnish Government and the European paper industry are trashing some of the last ancient forests in Europe to make paper.
I've come over to Finland to see both the beauty of the remaining forests and the carnage caused by their destruction.
The publishing industry must stop this devastation.
To save these last forests, the wildlife and the indigenous Sami people who depend on them, the industry must turn to ancient forest friendly solutions - like recycled paper and paper certified by the Forest Stewardship Council." Pat Venditti of Greenpeace said: "The Finnish logging industry is writing the final chapter in the demise of Europe's forests.
They must turn the page on this destruction and stop logging in critical reindeer herding areas.".
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