Forest Organizations

1st sector - QUANGOs

Metsähallitus

http://www.metsa.fi/sivustot/metsa/fi/Sivut/Etusivu.aspx

2nd sector - Businesses

UPM 10 - forestry company

http://www.upm-kymmene.com/fi/

3rd sector - NGOs

Forest Friends WWF World Wildlife Fund campaign

http://www.wwf-jugend.de/durchstarten/forest-friends/

Greenpeace forest rescue station Inari

http://weblog.greenpeace.org/forestrescue/archives/2005/11/action_for_anci_1.html

AND IN second life

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/about/virtual-party-virtual-ship-20090225

Saamen Metsä

http://saamenmetsa.wordpress.com/

Luonnonperintösäätiö (sells old growth forest cards and you own a piece of forest)

http://www.luonnonperintosaatio.fi

Luonto-Liitto Nation-wide nature and environment protection organization for children, the youth, and young adults http://luontoliitto.fi/luontoliitto/english.html

Suomen luonnonsuojeluliitto http://www.sll.fi/tiedotus/introduction

Maan ystävät (Friends of the Earth Finland) http://www.maanystavat.fi/

Urban Forest Movement Finland http://kaupunkimetsa.blogspot.com/

Dodo

http://dodo.org/tagit/tampere

Nordic Urban Forest Links http://www.skovenslokalevaerdier.dk/Default.aspx

Nordic Forests - Taiga Resque Network http://nordicforests.org/

Ranua Rescue

http://ranuarescue.blogspot.com/ -concentrates on the Uranium issue in Lapland

UK - Woodland Trust

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodland_Trust

Tree Council

http://www.treecouncil.org.uk/

Forestry Commission http://www.forestry.gov.uk/

"We are the government department responsible for the protection and expansion of Britain's forests and woodlands. "

Heckington Village Trust - started with a Tree Planting Group

http://www.n-kesteven.gov.uk/odennk/section.asp?docId=5192&catId=1384&pageTitle=Heckington+Village+Trust

Deutschland

www.plant-for-the-planet.org

http://www.plant-for-the-planet.org/

http://www.robinwood.de/ Direct action with banners on forests, anti-nuclear etc.

UK

http://www.sponsortrees.com/

PLANT a TREE AND WATCH IT GROW IN GOOGLE EARTH

http://www.mybabytree.org/25.php

IN THE UK there were several:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodcraft

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbo_Kift

http://www.kibbokift.org/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_Woodcraft_Chivalry

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woodcraft_Folk

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_School_Camps

that developed from a pagan viewpoint that valued the land differently from the Abrahamist "dominion" and militarism of the time. These formed a woodcraft movement. Successor groups are here.

The military groups included the scouts -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_Badge

use their own forest related symbolism.

Italia

http://www.arboricoli.it/