Press release 8th November 2007
Drained peatlands causing huge phosporus releases from bottom of the seas
Baltic Sea - sick from Finnish forestry?
The Finnish Association for Sustainable Forestry has called upon the Finnish government and the Baltic Marine Environment Protection Commission – HELCOM to study the impact of forestry on the state of the Baltic Sea and the inland waters of Finland. This request is based on an assessment that tiny particles of suspended humus in the effluent from drained peatland in Finland have caused oxygen depletion near the bottom of the sea and inland watercourses, triggering the phenomenon known as internal loading. This pollution phenomenon arises when the bottom sediment of these waters releases the phosphorus that causes eutrophication.Read more here.