Archive for 'Forestry'
Nellim Reindeer Herders Ordered to Pay 100,000 Euros in Damages
(Pic. Helsingin Sanomat) Three Sami reindeer herders from Nellim, in Northern FInland have just lost their case against the Finnish state forestry giant Metsahallitus in the Lapland District Court. The reindeer herders argued that the logging practices of Metsahallitus was destroying reindeer pastures - ground lichen and hanging tree lichen and were not only [...]
Posted: August 5th, 2008 under Finland, Forestry, conflict.
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Lapland: disputes over land and reindeer pit brother against brother
(From Helsingin Sanomat, March 2, 2008) ”…It is not immediately apparent that Nellim is a place where the three most enduring disputes of northernmost Finnish Lapland converge: the conflict over the use of forests, disagreements over land ownership and the rights of the Sami people, and the dispute over reindeer husbandry. All of these are interlinked. [...]
Posted: March 6th, 2008 under Finland, Forestry, Reindeer, Reindeer Herders.
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