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Google subsidiary Tuike Finland illegally cut down flying squirrel roosting trees and trails in Hamina in connection with the expansion of a data center in 2018–2019.
Google cut down a forest containing flying squirrel breeding and resting places at the Hamina data center expansion site seven years ago. The authorities did not file a criminal report at the time because the incident was considered an accident.
Google told Kymen Sanomat in 2024 that the clearing of protected areas had occurred accidentally.
During the construction of a Google data center, protected flying squirrel habitat was destroyed in Finland, even though the company did not have a permit. Environmental officials discovered years later that much more forest had been cut down than was allowed in the permit application. However, the case did not reach the police and the company escaped with a reprimand. Now Finnish conservationists want to re-investigate the old case.
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