Askola, Finland (AFP) Nov 11, 2022

Standing next to a freshly-cut clearing the size of seven football fields, Finnish forest engineer Matti Jappila pointed to growth rings in an up to 300-year-old tree stump.

“I have started to systematically carry out these loggings, sort of in advance,” he said.

Like many other Finns, Jappila fears that the EU’s upcoming biodiversity strategy, which aims to protect 30 percent of the EU’
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