The claim stating that IKEA is harvesting 600 year old trees is misleading.
The temporary suspension of the FSC certificate is not related to old growth forest. It is related to deviations within forest management, manuals and co-worker equipment. We do not use 600 year old trees in our products. The average age of the trees we are cutting in the lease is 160 years old.
Karelia is an area with high natural values. 22% of the lease is identified as High Conservation Value Forest (HCVF as per definition of FSC) and we do not log from these areas.