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International Landscape Day 20 October 2020 festivities to include a photo competition and landscape walks
Wednesday 20 October 2021 is International Landscape Day, which is based on the Council of Europe Landscape Convention. The Convention encourages everyone to participate in observing landscapes and in...
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2021-10-14
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International Landscape Day on 20 October – participate in a photography campaign or a photo competition
International Landscape Day will be celebrated in October. As in previous years, the festivities in Finland will include an open photo competition, guided landscape walks and a photography campaign th...
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2021-09-06
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Finland’s cormorant population decreased from the previous summer
Approximately 24,300 cormorant nests were counted in Finland in the summer of 2021. The first successful inland nesting was confirmed in Päijät-Häme. The nesting population in Finland has varied by on...
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2021-08-18
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Study: Finland has some readiness for implementation of EU biodiversity strategy
“Impacts of EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030 for Finland” is a study by the Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) and the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke), which produced background informat...
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2021-06-23
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International Landscape Day 20 October 2020 festivities to include a photo competition and landscape walks
Tuesday 20 October 2020 is International Landscape Day. The Ministry of the Environment will organise a photo contest in honour of the day and the Rural Women’s Advisory Organisation will organise gui...
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2020-10-15
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Cormorant population in Finland has stabilised at approximately 26,000 breeding couples
Approximately 25,760 cormorant nests were counted in the Finnish coastal areas in the summer of 2020. In the past five years, the nesting population has varied by only a few per cent. However, there i...
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2020-08-11
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Doctoral dissertation “Ant community structure in successional mosaics of boreal forests"
MSc Pekka Punttila will defend his doctoral dissertation entitled “Ant community structure in successional mosaics of boreal forests " at the Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Universi...
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2020-06-05
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Significant funding for a new Finnish Ecosystem Observatory
The state of biodiversity and ecosystems has deteriorated both in Finland and globally. Planning and implementing effective corrective measures requires more comprehensive and up-to-date information a...
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2020-05-29
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The decline in natural biodiversity can be stopped
This decade, Finland has for the first time a real chance to significantly reverse the decline in biodiversity. In the last 25 years, many new ways have been found to restore nature. Halting the deter...
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2020-05-12
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Hydrology of undrained peatlands is often affected by drainage of surrounding areas
Finnish peatlands are under a bigger pressure from land use than has generally been realised. More than half of the peatland area has been drained, and most of the remaining undrained peatlands are bo...
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2019-12-18
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International Landscape Day to be celebrated with a photo contest and scenic walks
International Landscape Day will be celebrated on Sunday 20 October 2019. This year, the aim is to use Landscape Day to draw particular attention to the value of water in the landscape.
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2019-10-15
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Landscape and Water as Landscape Day themes
Living in the land of a thousand lakes, water plays an important role in the everyday lives of Finns. How is water represented in our everyday landscapes? Is it quietly flowing along in tiny streams a...
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2019-09-13
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Hymenoptera threatened by overgrowth
Species in our country's largest order of insects are increasingly under threat. In an assessment of threatened species made public in the spring, about 16 % of our species of Hymenoptera were assesse...
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2019-08-21
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New estimate - every ninth species in Finland is threatened
A new assessment of threatened species indicates an increasing loss of biodiversity in Finnish nature. Of the 22 000 species evaluated, 11.9% were classified as threatened, compared to 10.5% in the pr...
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2019-03-08
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Assessment of threatened habitat types in Finland 2018: The status of natural habitats continues to deteriorate
The threat status of habitat types in Finland was evaluated for the second time. Almost half (48%) of the nearly 400 habitat types across the country were assessed to be threatened. In southern Finlan...
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2018-12-18
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Nature as a solution for immigrant integration in Nordic countries
Immigration to the Nordic region has increased fast during recent decades. Large portion of the newcomers are asylum seekers. These developments promote the need for revisiting and developing new appr...
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2018-08-20
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A Tribute to Everyday Landscapes
The #arkimaisema photography campaign of the Ministry of the Environment and The Finnish Environment Institute challenges people to take a look at their own everyday landscape with new eyes.
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2018-08-14
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Coastal spatial planning forms the basis for sustainable business activities
The planning of coastal spatial management enables account to be taken of the effects of land-sea activities on coastal nature and local business activities. The objective of such planning is to exami...
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2017-06-13
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Number of threatened mammal species decreased in Finland
The number of threatened mammal species decreased by four compared to the previous evaluation. No species were found to be more threatened than before. Conversely, four species, namely the European be...
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2016-01-25
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Number of threatened bird species increased in Finland
The number of threatened bird species increased by 28 species compared to the previous evaluation, while 21 new species were red-listed. Aquatic and wetland species in particular have become increasin...
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2016-01-25
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