17.06.2019 / Article

Biodiversity is best promoted by indigenous trees, while debate tends to focus on rarities
17.06.2019 / Article

It is time to gather wild herbs for the midsummer feast – 4H organisation encourages young people to start a herb business
14.06.2019 / Article

Wood is a supermaterial, and the hottest example of this is pulp
11.04.2019 / Article

Five applications that use open forest data – over three million downloads of geographic forest data maps within a year
19.06.2019 / Article

forest.fi online magazine has had a makeover – Finnish forest sector’s joint publication provides topical information for forest debate

The most important way to protect biodiversity in Finnish forests is to grow native tree species. Then most of the other forest species cope fine.

Herbs belong to city life. ’And they grow just here, in the parks close to us. The demand also is here,’ says Siiri Mäkelä in her office in the centre of Helsinki.

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Cultivation and care

Did you know that micro-organisms learned to decompose lignin only some 300 million years ago. After that the production of black coal has decreased significantly. Read more from Cultivation and care -- forestry and biodiversity, the new book written by Seppo Vuokko.

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