Finland’s Stora Enso suspends logging after damage to river pearl mussels

Finland

Finland

Finnish forestry group Stora Enso has suspended all logging in environmentally protected areas in Finland, it said on Monday after admitting it destroyed a large number of freshwater pearl mussels near one of its sites this month.


Forestry machines crossing the Hukkajoki river in central Finland on Aug. 15 are believed to have damaged 150-200 metres (490-660 ft) of the riverbed, crushing thousands of endangered mussels, police have said.

“We have already initiated a number of changes to ensure that nothing like this can happen again,” Stora Enso CEO Hans Sohlstrom said in a statement on Monday.

“Stora Enso has suspended harvesting in all areas throughout Finland where there are restrictions under the Water Act, the Forest Act or the Nature Conservation Act,” the company said.

Police said they were investigating the incident as a serious environmental crime.

SOURCE: https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/finland%27s-stora-enso-suspends-logging-after-damage-to-river-pearl-mussels/87441653

Click here to post comments

Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How? Simply click here to return to Pearl News.

Enjoy this page? Please pay it forward. Here's how...

Would you prefer to share this page with others by linking to it?

  1. Click on the HTML link code below.
  2. Copy and paste it, adding a note of your own, into your blog, a Web page, forums, a blog comment, your Facebook account, or anywhere that someone would find this page valuable.