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Greens chair Virta admits understating extent of husband's logging

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Green Party chair Sofia Virta has admitted she made inaccurate statements about logging on land in Southwest Finland .

An article in the tabloid publication Seiska claimed that nearly 30 hectares of forest on the property in Naantali had been clear-cut.

Virta said that seed-tree and shelterwood cuts had been carried out on around seven hectares of the land, due to bark beetle damage.

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English

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56

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