You must log in or register to comment.
- givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish14 days
The only way they’ll stop is if the land gets seized to be converted into a park and they have to pay for it to be reforested.
If they just pay a fine and get to keep going, it’s a cost of business
Make them have to start over, and they’ll stop doing it.
- BigShammy80@feddit.orgEnglish14 days
I hope something like this will happen, it probably won’t though.
- tabarnaski@sh.itjust.worksEnglish14 days
This is awful, and we should expect stuff like this to happen more often…
I would have liked the article to be a little more specific on the details of how the law was broken though.
- meat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish14 days
Unfortunately, locals need to physically defend their forests and natural resources from these AI corporations. The law is much too slow.
- meat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish13 days
From the article “the illegally felled timber cannot be sold commercially.”
- Sarmyth@lemmy.worldEnglish13 days
The loggers may not have been local but I dont think you drop 250k trees without a shit load of people noticing. The data center as a whole project will swell workers and trade jobs in the area during the construction for a facility large enough to warrant that much clearing.
I think many in the local area were fine with it while opponents are getting good coverage now.
- moistclump@lemmy.worldEnglish13 days
Tragic thing is that sticking trees back in the ground does not replace what’s been lost. Ecosystems take decades if not centuries. I think they should be paying for replanting, biologists and arborists oversight for a couple decades, and a crew to maintain and care for them.
- 14 days
Vote right-wing again, I dare you, Finland. Maybe then you’ll learn what happens to your forests, just like the global south has.
- redbrick@lemmy.worldEnglish14 days
Strange that no one google’d if Finland actually needed those trees. You’d think Gemini would say, ‘Yeah, they need dem trees…’ right?)
- 14 days
What’s more important, the needs of a company with the wealth of a small country or… a small country?
14 daysIf the trees are needed by Finland is irrelevant if they were taken down without permission.
- rabber@lemmy.caEnglish14 days
Not excusing anything here but it’s not like the Finns treat their forests with respect either. The entire country is a tree farm.
- rabber@lemmy.caEnglish14 days
Satellite view
Can dig more sources for you regarding draining of ecosystems tomorrow
- 14 days
In 2025, roundwood consumption in Finland totalled 78.9 million cubic metres, representing a 3% increase from the previous year. Forest industry production accounted for 84% of the volume, while the remainder was used for energy production.
– [ Wood consumption 2025 (provisional)]https://www.luke.fi/en/statistics/wood-consumption/wood-consumption-2025-provisional)
Compared to the previous inventory, forest resources have continued to increase but the average annual increment has declined from 107.8 M m3 to 103.0 M m3.
– Forests of Finland 2019–2023 and their development 1921–2023
That leaves 20 million cubic metres of wood in tact in Finland.
- Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish13 days
Timberland is really not a healthy forest. Those are very different things.
- Eheran@lemmy.worldEnglish12 days
Where do you get this is anything else? Let alone the possibility that anyone would try to build on one of those extremely rare spots of remaining “wild” non-managed forest? This is all timberland just like almost all area with trees in all of Europe.
- 12 days
So, you don’t know whether it’s timberland and are making an assumption. Good to know.
