Author Archives: Snowchange

In an effort to better address the needs of the Indigenous-rights movement at the grassroots level in the Arctic region, Land is Life has partnered with Snowchange Cooperative, to launch our Indigenous-Led Grantmaking initiative in the North American Arctic. This … Continue reading →

Snowchange fisherman Lauri Hämäläinen travelled last weekend to the SlowFish 2019 event in Genoa, Italy. He premiered the “Koitajoki” river seining film and met with other small-scale fishermen.  Lauri reports: “Chiara Meta and her family hosted me. They were very … Continue reading →

Anna Aleksandrovna Kaurgina, a Chukchi Elder from the village of Kolymskaya, Sakha-Yakutia, Russia, has passed away. Between 2004 and 2019 she was a leader in a fight against climate change and for revitalisation of the Chukchi nomadic lifestyle and traditions. … Continue reading →

Snowchange as a part of the EU project “Kepler” has been working with Indigenous and local communities in Northern Sweden, Finnish Sámi areas, NW Russia and Coastal Norway to combine Indigenous and local community voices with scientists to assess and … Continue reading →

Finnair has announced today it joins the Landscape Rewilding Programme coordinated by Snowchange for restoration of marshmires, wetlands and habitats relevant for traditional and Indigenous communities in Finland. Snowchange Cooperative is a Finnish non-profit science and nature conservation organisation, with projects … Continue reading →

Professional fisherman, knowledge holder Risto Hara was born in 1961. He was born into a family of nine siblings. He began working as a professional fisherman in 1993, but had been learning the trade from his father, with whom he … Continue reading →

Trout spawning and juvenile fish habitat restoration is well under way in river Jukajoki just prior to spring floods. The work will continue in Summer 2019 with further spawning areas to be restored after 70 years of a hiatus. Snowchange … Continue reading →

Ashish Kothari and Aili Pyhälä from the ICCA Consortium visited Snowchange HQ and operations in March. Ashish has released a ICCA -related blog entry of the visit, which is available here. In other news, the NORDIA science journal features an … Continue reading →

Landscape Rewilding Programme, an initiative between Snowchange Cooperative, Rewilding Europe and the European Investment Bank (EIB) has been working for one year. An event in Helsinki disseminates the first year results.  Under the programme, EIB and Rewilding Europe have provided … Continue reading →

The work in 2018 for the Ecologically and Biologically Significant Marine Areas – EBSAs, has been completed for the Baltic Sea under the CBD.  In its 14th meeting last November, the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity … Continue reading →