The Löytynsuo area is planned as part of a major expansion of Lake Tiilikkajärvi National Park.
The forest company Tornator and the North Savo Environment Centre have agreed on the exchange of land in the Tiilikkajärvi National Park extension area. The North Savo Environment Centre will provide information on the matter.
Tornator Oyj and the North Savo Environment Centre have agreed to exchange the 1 330 hectare Löytynsuo site in the municipality of Rautavaara. The Löytynsuo area is planned as part of a major expansion of the Lake Tiilikkajärvi National Park. In exchange, Tornator will receive forestry land from the state.
Most of the area is already part of the Tornator Private Nature Reserves, which have already been established by the Nature Conservation Act. At the same time, 111 hectares of valuable wetland areas from Ilomants included in the proposal to supplement the Tornator peatland protection will be transferred to the state.
In connection with the land exchange, a total of 177 hectares will be transferred to nature conservation as new areas. The Löytynsuo area is a diverse ensemble of open and wooded bogs that have been largely undrained, which also has natural old forest and small forest islands.
The Union of Pohjois-Savo and the municipality of Rautavaara submitted an initiative to the Ministry of the Environment regarding the expansion of Tiilikkajärvi National Park in the fall of 2020. In the government’s proposal, the national park would be expanded by a total of approximately 2,441 hectares, according to the website of the Union of Pohjois-Savo. Tiilikkajärvi National Park currently covers an area of \u200b\u200b3,450 hectares.