Santa's forests being destroyed - Christmas might be cancelled
Santa Claus press release Dec. 22, 2006
Huge clearcuts are being done right now in the ancient forests of Savukoski, Finnish Lapland. Santa Claus and his helpers who live at nearby Korvatunturi fjall are deeply depressed over the destruction of their home forests. It is now very likely that Christmas as we know it will be cancelled this year.
- We have not been able to work as hard as we should have, confirms Santa himself.
- There has been continuous disturbance by harvesters and timber trucks here. It has taken our motivation for our work and made us very sad.
- It looks really bad for the Christmas this year. We will for sure have to skip many homes and I am not sure if we can get on the road at all, says Santa almost with a tear in his eye.
Santa, his wife and the elves have already started to plan moving from Finland. They have been visiting the wilderness areas in Russia and Canada. There are still some large areas left where it is possible to prepare Christmas in peace without heavy logging machinery and forest destruction next door.
State owned logging company Metsähallitus started massive clearcuts in the last unprotected large intact forest areas in November. This means systematic destruction of these priceless forests in order to prevent the protection plans. These loggings are not even economically sound: very low productive ancient forests are being trashed and taken to Stora Enso pulp mill in Kemijärvi.
- They are cooking 500 year old, unique pine trees for pulp, it is outrageous, says Santa.
- These forests have a tremendeous importance for reindeer herding, tourism and other local uses. Not to mention the biodiversity values and the beautiful views, sighs Santa.
Some elves have in fact started a strike and they are delivering leaflets about the situation on the streets on Friday.
At the web page www.forestinfo.fi/forestlapland you can see these forests and loggings for yourself. There are a lot of photos and information of these areas. At the Finnish pages www.forestinfo.fi/metsalappi even more data.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Santa Claus, joulun.ukko( @ )gmail.com
Huge clearcuts are being done right now in the ancient forests of Savukoski, Finnish Lapland. Santa Claus and his helpers who live at nearby Korvatunturi fjall are deeply depressed over the destruction of their home forests. It is now very likely that Christmas as we know it will be cancelled this year.
- We have not been able to work as hard as we should have, confirms Santa himself.
- There has been continuous disturbance by harvesters and timber trucks here. It has taken our motivation for our work and made us very sad.
- It looks really bad for the Christmas this year. We will for sure have to skip many homes and I am not sure if we can get on the road at all, says Santa almost with a tear in his eye.
Santa, his wife and the elves have already started to plan moving from Finland. They have been visiting the wilderness areas in Russia and Canada. There are still some large areas left where it is possible to prepare Christmas in peace without heavy logging machinery and forest destruction next door.
State owned logging company Metsähallitus started massive clearcuts in the last unprotected large intact forest areas in November. This means systematic destruction of these priceless forests in order to prevent the protection plans. These loggings are not even economically sound: very low productive ancient forests are being trashed and taken to Stora Enso pulp mill in Kemijärvi.
- They are cooking 500 year old, unique pine trees for pulp, it is outrageous, says Santa.
- These forests have a tremendeous importance for reindeer herding, tourism and other local uses. Not to mention the biodiversity values and the beautiful views, sighs Santa.
Some elves have in fact started a strike and they are delivering leaflets about the situation on the streets on Friday.
At the web page www.forestinfo.fi/forestlapland you can see these forests and loggings for yourself. There are a lot of photos and information of these areas. At the Finnish pages www.forestinfo.fi/metsalappi even more data.
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Santa Claus, joulun.ukko( @ )gmail.com
posted by Editor at 5:14 PM
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