Thursday, June 28, 2007

florestas

As florestas, habitats sagrados e ancestrais continuam, por todo o mundo sem excepção, vulneráveis face às investidas da ganância humana.

Interrogo-me se aqueles que procuram avidamente cortar as florestas de forma tão massiva, ou sobretudo os que mandam cortar, se detiveram por breves minutos que fosse “sentindo” a essência de uma floresta. Não é algo propriamente dizível ... descritível ... mas posso sem qualquer sombra de dúvida afirmar que é mesmo algo de único, transcendente talvez ... creio que depois de tal experiência é praticamente impossível olhar para um floresta como um mero aglomrado de madeira pronta a cortar ... infelizmente continuam a ser mais os que olham para o verde das notas de euro e dólar do que para o verde primordial da Natureza ... e somos nós que escolhemos em larga medida o que queremos ver ...

um apelo vindo da Finlândia ...


The destruction of Saami forests 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



The short history of this conflict with video clips from the movie

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1. Centre of Saamiland


In northern Lapland, over one thousand kilometres north of Finland’s

capital, Helsinki, lies the largest remaining wilderness in Western

Europe. These fells and forests are the homeland of Northern Europe’s

only

indigenous people, the Saami. The land rights issue in the Saami

homeland

is unsolved.


Look the introduction of the scenerys videoclip

http://video.elonmerkki.net/videoreportage/alkumaisema.mp4



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LAST YOIK IN SAAMI FORESTS - A DOCUMENTARY FOR UN


The above clips are part of the documentary movie

Last yoik in Saami forests , 54 min


You can look the version updated April 2007 on the address:

http://video.elonmerkki.net/last_yoik.mp4

The documentary movie is also available on DVD.


For commercial presentations, library use and for tv broadcastings,

please

contact the director Hannu Hyvönen directly at hannu@elonmerkki.net


Contacts:


http://elonmerkki.net


info@elonmerkki.net

tel +358 40 831 7733