Last yoik in Saami forests ?

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Description: Dear friend Could you please make an action for Saami people and distribute this FOLLOWING press release for media and ngo contacts in your country. And the other action we now recommentade. Arrange a video presentation for Saami forest issue. Union of Ecoforestry in Finland supports dvd-distribution for public presentations. Friend of Saami ================================ Press release and video reportage 5.6.2007 by Media cooperative Signs of Life http://elonmerkki.net ========================================== Illegal logging in Saami forests - The destruction of Saami home area in Finnish Lapland started again The long lasting forestry conflict in Finnish Lappland is again in a very urgent state. The Finnish state owned company, Metsähallitus, has started large scale logging operations in the home area of indigenous Saami people on the 14th of May, 2007. These logging have been critisized for the following reasons: -there is no solution yet for the land ownership conflict between indigenous Saami people and the Finnish state. -the Finnish state has not proven to be the actual owner of the forests that it is logging right now. -the clear-cutting style of logging ancient forests in the extreme north of Europe cannot be accepted from an ecological and micro-climatical point of view. -the loggings destroy the very basis of the culturally important Saami free grazing reindeer herding tradition -the loggings waste the ancient forests and its wood and leave less possibilities for future truly sustainable continuous cover forestry without destructive clear cutting. Among others Union of Ecoforestry urged Finnish parliament to stop the logging immediately and distributed for parliament groups the documentary movie Last yoik in Saami forests (http://elonmerkki.net). Until now there has not been any public reaction by the Finnish government. The silence in Finnish media also continues. The director of the movie, Hannu Hyvönen, expressed his feelings about the on-going loggings recently: "It is quite easy for us to update this sad turn-up in the documentary movie, but we cannot update these forests which are now again cutted down." The documentary movie can also be loaded here: http://video.elonmerkki.net/last_yoik.mp4 More info and links: http://elonmerkki.net/en Videoreportage http://elonmerkki.net/en/discussion/ Share with friends
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benzo430 ::: Favorites Have you contacted Survival International, they help indigenous people fight for their land and culture?? 07-06-09 04:32:04 _____________________________________________________
apuronen ::: Favorites Thanks for the information, we shall contact them Hannu 07-06-09 15:48:26 _____________________________________________________
Cosmoline ::: Favorites What about using our ANCSA model in Finland? The Saami lands would be owned by a special corporation with the stock held by the Saami. This has worked pretty well for Alaskan natives. To get approval to cut forests, drill for oil or whatever they need approval of the stockholders/tribal members. 07-06-16 23:18:25 _____________________________________________________