The future of lake Inari? [electronic resource] / written and directed by Hannu Hyvönen.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Hyvönen, Hannu., Director, Screenwriter.

Documentary Educational Resources (Firm), Distributor.

Series:

Ethnographic video online.

Language:

English

Finnish

Subjects (All):

Sami (European people)--Land tenure--Finland.

Sami (European people).

Inari Lake (Finland).

Genre:

Ethnographic films.

Documentary films.

Physical Description:

1 streaming video (6 min.) : sd., col.

Place of Publication:

Watertown, Mass. : Documentary Educational Resources, 2007.

Language Note:

In Finnish with English subtitles.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

Made for the United Nations, this documentary chronicles the logging damage that has taken place in the forests of Finnish Lapland over the past 50 years. Home to the indigenous Saami peoples, these Northern old growth forests are essential to Saami reindeer herding, a traditional way of life that the Saami hope to continue into future generations. Population growth in Finland has created economic pressure - prompting migration to the Saami lands in the North. The resulting forest cutting severely depletes the lichen necessary for free reindeer grazing, and logging infrastructure disrupts the entire forest ecosystem.

Notes:

Title from title frames (Ethnographic video online, viewed on Mar. 2, 2012).

Previously released on DVD.

Recorded in Finland.

Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2010. (Ethnographic video online). Available via World Wide Web.

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.