Europe’s only Indigenous People, the Sámi, have paid a heavy price for Sweden’s industrial forestry model. The forest ecosystem that their reindeer depend on has been plundered to such a degree that it threatens their culture and livelihood, which has survived for millennia.
Yet they’re not the only people suffering at the hands of a forestry industry that’s destroyed vast swathes of Sweden’s old growth boreal forests by clearcutting pristine forests and turning them into monoculture tree plantations.
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