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Landscape Day invites you to experience and to photograph landscape
Landscapes are an essential part of our well-being and the quality and diversity of our living environment. Thursday 20 October is International Landscape Day. The annually celebrated Landscape Day en...
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2022-09-05
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Finland’s best landscape project sought for the eighth time
The competition for Finland’s best landscape project is here once more. Projects in which landscapes have been successfully managed, protected or planned are invited to enter this competition organise...
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2022-03-31
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Classic lake landscape won first place in the Landscape Day photo competition
Wednesday 20 October was International Landscape Day, and to celebrate the day, the Ministry of the Environment organised a photo competition with the theme “Landscape Day 2021”. First place was award...
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2021-11-09
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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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The year of celebration for European landscapes
This autumn, we are celebrating landscapes as it is the 20th anniversary of the European Landscape Convention. Vibrant landscape is an important part of the European identity. Landscapes are celebrat...
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2020-09-07
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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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Changes in snow coverage threatens biodiversity of Arctic nature
Many of the plants on northern mountains depend on the snow melting late in spring and summer. Snow provides shelter from winter extreme events for plants but at the same time it limits the length of ...
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2018-10-23
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