According to Managing Director Juha S. Niemelä, maintaining even current national parks requires a lot of money.
According to Niemelä, the maintenance of the current 41 national parks requires a lot of money, and their funding is not always even enough for the necessary maintenance.
The Ministry of the Environment has received numerous applications for new national parks, such as Kolar’s Aalistunturi, where logging was stopped this week by a protest.
According to Niemelä, the national park proposal should not be a way to prevent the cutting down of state forests.