The company, Metsähallitus, and the herders, have signed a logging moratorium for 20 years, protecting some of the last old-growth forests left in Europe and ending a long-standing conflict between the herders and Finland's State forest service.
Lapland forests home to Sámi people and herds of reindeer
Greenpeace joined struggle to save the forests in 2002
Forest Rescue Station helped local herders
In 2005, we established an international Forest Rescue Station in the forests of Nellim. From the camp, our volunteers helped the local reindeer herders to mark out their reindeer forests, threatened by logging. In the same year, we also filed a lawsuit with the reindeer herders when Metsähallitus continued logging the forests despite a UN Human Rights Committee recommendation for Finland to cease the logging until the case has been handled by the court.
Agreement offers hope for other old-growth forests in Finnish Lapland
The agreement signed this week, gives hope for other old-growth forest areas in Finnish Lapland. Sini Harkki, Greenpeace forest campaigner in Finland, said that 20 years is enough time to find a permanent solution to the conflict between traditional reindeer herding and forestry. “We hope that the negotiated solution will work as a model for Metsähallitus to resolve similar conflicts in other parts of the Sámi Homeland as well.”
So much land is vacant all over the world. They are producing coffee. I have seen in Africa. Vast land is engaged in producing coffee. No food grain. So this is the defect of the civilization. They do not know how to live. Will man die without drinking coffee? No. That is not the fact. But man will die if they have no real food, anna, food grains. If you think that “I eat meat. 
