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Large Protest in Eight Swedish Ikea Stores

Press release from Protect the Forest and Nature and Youth Sweden 2012-04-29 Large protest in eight Swedish IKEA stores Yesterday, on Saturday the 28th, the environmental organizations Protect the Forest and Nature and Youth Sweden protested at eight different IKEA stores around Sweden. The customers were told about IKEA’s logging of old-growth forest in Russia

Save Karelia’s old-growth forests

  Threat against 1,3 million hectares in Russian Karelia Old-growth forest in Russian Karelia. September 2011. Photo: Robert Svensson   The government of the Russian republic of Karelia has recently proposed to cancel the previous agreement for protection of high conservation value forests. The proposed changes in the land use plan would threaten more than

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Taiga Rescue Network 2011-11-08

200-600 year old trees stacked at a clear-cutt of a primeval forest in northern Karelia 2011 – Photo: Protect the Forest Massive Cutbacks in Karelia’s Nature Conservation Policy Would Threaten Europe’s Natural Heritage Some of the most important landscapes of Europe’s high-conservation value forests are located in the Russian republic of Karelia, where vast, intact areas