Green transition creates new pressures to land use in the Barents region. The project aims to promote biodiversity conversation and knowledge to support sustainble green transition.  T...

Researcher Doctoral Researcher, Sociology, Tampere University M.Soc.Sci, Sociology, Tampere University Contact details marja.sivonen[at]syke.fi +358 295 251 012 Fin......

SYKE has long contributed to the development of the Barents area through various projects such as the EU-funded Action on Black Carbon in the Arctic (EUA-BCA) contributing to the development of c...

Study areas of the BARIMS project The BARIMS project, that is funded by the Finnish Ministry for Foreign Affairs, aims to enhance regional co-operation in the light of sustainable de...

Boreal forests of the Barents Region stretch through Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, who are all Parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). Under the CBD, Aichi Biodiversity Targ...

Environment continues to be a high priority for the Barents cooperation. Foreign Ministers of the four Barents countries - Finland, Norway, Russia and Sweden - emphasized it during the annual Internat......

Two new regional nature reserves have been established in the Russian regions neighbouring Finland. A natural monument was established on the Zaonezhye Peninsula in Karelia, while a larger conservatio......

A photography exhibition featuring Barents Region’s nature opens today in Oulu. The exhibition is part of international cooperation on nature conservation in the Barents Region....

The unique and vulnerable nature in the Barents Region belongs to one of the largest remaining intact forest ecosystems on Earth. At the same time the boreal-arctic nature is under increased pres...

Subgroup on Nature and Water of the Barents Euro-Arctic Council's (BEAC) Working Group on Environment coordinates and implements co-operation on biodiversity and habitat conservation in the Barents R...