Author Archives: Snowchange

An antidote to the fear-based climate change narrative, Our Place on Earth shares on-the- ground stories of community resilience from around the world. Season 1 is now available for free. The season opens in the small Finnish village of Selkie, … Continue reading →

A new research paper, published in the IDS Bulletin, discusses the Skolt Sámi work in the Näätämö basin. “Moving Beyond Co-Construction of Knowledge to Enable Self-Determination” talks about Indigenous knowledge: It is increasingly recognised that co-construction of knowledge which brings … Continue reading →

Snowchange and ELOKA / National Snow and Ice Data Center, USA co-publish, together with the Kolyma fishing communities, major fisheries pages. They describe the cultural and commercial harvests and some of the drivers of change affecting the extremely remote Siberian … Continue reading →

2017 is here. Ice conditions have improved over the past three weeks which allowed both the commercial seining and net fishing to begin in North Karelia. Temperatures continue to fluctuate however between -30 and +1 C. We carefully monitor the … Continue reading →

Snowchange Co-op has been able to register the first community-conserved area (ICCA) in Finland. The Havukkavaara forest located in North Karelia is a south/middle-boreal protected forest with great cultural and historical roots in the region. The traditional lifeways, some of … Continue reading →

December brought participation in the Nordic IPBES Workshop in Seili, Finland. Snowchange will coordinate the Indigenous and local knowledge issues for the report in many locations. A large Workshop in Greenland will be the main event for December. 5th December … Continue reading →

The Arctic Council has released today the “Arctic Resilience Report”. The document contains materials and research from the Snowchange Näätämö Co-Management Project led by the Skolt Sámi in Northern Finland. Environmental, ecological, and social changes are happening faster than ever … Continue reading →

Snowchange publishes a new Discussion Paper, titled “Inuit and Chukchi Star lore: Reflections on Ursa Major, the North Star and Northern Lights”. In this short discussion paper we have investigated the questions of indigenous, endemic star lore and celestial events. … Continue reading →

Late October Snowchange delegates travel to Warsaw, Poland to participate in the Low Impact Fishermen of Europe Annual Meeting. The season is marked with fisheries for vendace and whitefish. November will bring a host of publication launches, both scientific articles … Continue reading →

This week Snowchange specialists and staff worked with the Skolt Sámi team and the community of Sevettijärvi to advance the ecological restoration of habitats in the sub-catchment area of Vainosjoki river in Arctic Finland. Early in the week several meetings … Continue reading →