The Central Union of Finnish Agricultural Producers and Forest Owners (MTK) is reforming its forest biodiversity programme.The Forest Owners' Union is reforming its biodiversity programme for private forestry. The new programme covers all aspects of sustainable forestry.
The most recent results of scientific research, both in respect of biodiversity, of other environmental benefits from forests and of means to provide forest related services, are taken into account in the programme. It also includes the search for ways of adapting to climate changes.
The MTK Forest Management Board has established a working group with the task of drawing up guidelines and a programme for sustainable management of family forests. Private forest owners prepared the first programme and recommendations for protecting forest biodiversity as early as in 1995. The programme was revised in the year 2000. Now is the time for a new update.