> While Google argued the land was standard commercial forest harvested under the Forestry Act, local environmental groups—including the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation (Suomen luonnonsuojeluliitto)—protested, claiming that indiscriminate logging had encroached upon native habitats and high-value nature sites that should have been preserved.
Also, even much of the planted forests were practicing GTR (Green Tree Retention) techniques which have been spreading in usage across Finland. It's a technique to increase native biodiversity. It is incorrect to state that these planted forests are purely for commercial purposes
And a lot of the non-native forests were explicitly government-protected rare native habitats.
We're talking about 815 acres at Muhos and another 494 acres at Kajaani. Call me cynical but it seems clear that making sure to get rid of the high value native forests and say "woops, sorry" was the strategy. If they'd left them, it would imperil the entire construction project. Now activists have the onus on them to prove how much was native vs planted from unreliable old datasets and imagery.