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National Forest Strategy 2025 Finland’s National Forest Strategy, adopted by the Government in February 2015, specifies the main objectives for forest-based business and activities until 2025. The strategy was updated in 2019. The strategy is foun...

The circular economy is an opportunity for Finland The key objective of the circular economy is to save natural resources and utilise materials efficiently and sustainably. The circular economy is an economic model that does not continuously produ...

fi sv en Local food – but of course! Local food is one of the priorities of Finnish food policy. The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry prepared a Local Food Programme in collaboration with different stakeholders. It was adopted as a Government ...

fi sv en Development of the food chain The Finnish food chain provides the consumers with a broad range of safe, high-quality products and services. The food chain comprises the food sector as a whole. Producers, industry, trade, food services, co...

Helmi Habitats Programme – safeguarding biodiversity through cooperation The Helmi Habitats Programme, run jointly by the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and Ministry of the Environment, strengthens the biodiversity of Finnish nature and secu...

National Forest Strategy 2035 The National Forest Strategy describes the main objectives of the forest-based sector, which public authorities focus on as part of the joint development of the sector. On 14 December 2022, the National Forest Council...

Protection of forests in Finland In Finland, national parks and strict nature reserves constitute the basic framework of the nature conservation network. Other areas dedicated to biodiversity conservation include, inter alia, strictly protected zo...

6.3.2026 | In 2025, about 6,600 hectares of forest habitats were protected under the Forest Biodiversity Programme for Southern Finland METSO. Last year Finnish forest owners protected permanently about 3,200 hectares of forest and concluded ten-year environmental forestry subsidy agreements concerning about 3,400 hectares. The area covered by nature management works was about 180 hectares.

21.2.2019 | In its resolution today, the Government adopted the updated National Forest Strategy approved by the Forest Council in December. The vision and objectives of the Strategy, originally approved in 2015, remained primarily unchanged, but the project portfolio was updated to correspond to changes in the operating environment. The strategy now takes into account measures to safeguard climate sustainability and forest biodiversity more clearly than before.

18.2.2026 | Results of Helmi Habitats Programme 2025 The results do not include measures of the projects carried out by municipalities and associations (Kunta-Helmi and Järjestö-Helmi) (GR = Government Resolution on the Helmi Habitats Programme 2021–2030) GR ...

5.2.2025 | The Forest Biodiversity Programme for Southern Finland METSO (2008–2025) has had a positive impact on forest biodiversity. This is the conclusion of the independent final evaluation of the programme. A working group of the Ministry of the Environment and Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry is preparing the next period of the programme that will start in 2026.

30.6.2025 | FORESTS AND FORESTRY IN FINLAND June 2025 MMM | FORESTRY IN FINLAND FOREST IS ONE OF THE DOMINATING ELEMENTS OF FINNISH NATURE measured by the proportional share of forest land makes Finland the most forested country in Europe. In total, 20.3 mill...

23.11.2023 | On 23 November 2023, the Government adopted a resolution on launching an auction procedure concerning offshore wind power sites located in the public water areas of Finland. 

Metsäneuvosto toimii maa- ja metsätalousministeriön tukena laajakantoisissa ja periaatteellisesti tärkeissä metsäpoliittisissa kysymyksissä. Samalla metsäneuvosto toimii yhteistyöfoorumina metsiin liittyvän julkisen hallinnon ja yksityisen sektorin välillä. Metsäneuvosto seuraa ja edistää Kansallinen metsästrategia 2025:n (KMS 2025) toteuttamista ja tekee ehdotuksia ohjelman kehittämiseksi taloudellisesti, ekologisesti ja sosiaalisesti tasapainoisena kokonaisuutena.

29.1.2025 | Final report for NC-GRASS (01.03.2021 – 30.06.2024) Contents 1. Goals of the project 2. Partners and collaborations 3. Project implementation and results 3.1 The super sites 3.2 WP1 and WP2 3.3 WP3 3.4 WP4 3.5 WP5 3.6 WP6 4. Publications from the ...

27.5.2021 | On May 27th 2021 the Government adopted a resolution on the Helmi habitats programme that extends until 2030. The programme includes 40 actions for accelerating the restoration, management and protection of different habitats. The Helmi programme is a significant package of measures for halting biodiversity loss in Finland.

28.5.2021 | Local Food – But of Course! Government Programme on Local Food and development objectives for the local food sector to 2020 Government Resolution 16 May 2013 2 SUMMARY ..................................................................................

2.7.2019 | SUSTAINABLE GROWTH FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES SUSTAINABLE GROWTH FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES SUSTAINABLE GROWTH FROM RENEWABLE RESOURCES 2 3 Sustainable food production is responsible and profitable The key project “Profitable food production, trade ba...

6.6.2019 | NATIONAL FOREST STRATEGY OF FINLAND AIMS FOR GROWTH OF OVERALL WELFARE2025 NATIONAL FOREST STRATEGY 2025 2 UPDATED VERSION OF THE STRATEGY TAKES NEW EXPECTATIONS AND NEEDS INTO ACCOUNT The strategy aims for overall sustainability and takes into ac...

16.11.2015 | Government development programme for the organic product sector and objectives to 2020 MORE ORGANIC! Government development programme for the organic product sector and objectives to 2020 Government Resolution 16 May 2013 Publisher: Ministry of Ag...