Online discussions on forests preserved in the Finnish Web Archive

Online discussions on forests preserved in the Finnish Web Archive For a long time, public discussion on forests has been marked by the issue of defining limits for the economic exploitation of Finnish forests. The National Library of Finland has preserved forest-focused discussions on the internet spanning several years. Forests have always been extremely important to Finnish society. The utilisation of forest resources has been a hot topic for some time now. Public discussion became heated once again in late summer 2024 when a logging machine drove over protected freshwater pearl mussels at Hukkajoki river, in Suomussalmi in northeastern Finland. The material preserved in the Finnish Web Archive covers several years and contains discussions ranging from the protection of the carbon stocks and biodiversity of forests to their economic exploitation, which means that the content includes the perspectives of both nature conservation and business. The material contains entire websites ... Read full article.