The report says the networks have strengthened co-operation between the organisations involved in them and improved mutual acceptability.
Co-operation between forest owners, forest professionals and environmental groups “worked well and smoothly in the network” across Southern Finland, it says.
The networks’ emphasis has been forest protection by either creating private protection areas or trading natural values, whereby landowners agree to safeuard certain natural values in their forests for a specified time.
The Metso Programme, also known as the forest biodiversity programme for Southern Finland, is currently in its pilot phase. Its future will be decided in 2007.
