Greenpeace has repeated its demand for Stora Enso to stop buying logs in upper Lapland in a fresh demonstration which involved a ship blockade in the Finnish port of Kemi.
Activists prevented the freight ship Antares leaving harbour with a consignment of pulp and paper bound for Germany.
The environmental group says a similar ship loaded with pulp made from endangered forests leaves Finland for the UK every week.
Greenpeace claims Stora Enso is buying logs from “ancient forests” in Lapland, which are being “destroyed” by state-owned logging company Metsähallitus.
Susanna Rissanen, sustainability manager of Stora Enso Wood Supply Finland, said: “We are not going to agree with the Greenpeace demand. We see that Metsähallitus is operating there [upper Lapland], in a sustainable way.”
She said half of the forests in the disputed areas, populated by the Sàmi, were already protected.
