Category Archives: News

The influential Take Part journal in the USA has released a major news story of Snowchange and Skolt Sámi work with climate change and the Näätämö Co-Management Project. It is here.

Paris, France – 28.11.2015 Chief Vyacheslav Shadrin of Russia is one of the six laureates of the 2015 Paul Karl Feyerabend Award.  In a small ceremony at the UNESCO premises on November 27, in Paris, Chief Shadrin received the Award … Continue reading →

The Snowchange Co-op joins in mourning for the loss of a prominent Chukchi leader, Elder and a Grandfather, reindeer herder mr. Jegor Nutendli. Mr. Nutendli spent all of his life in the Lower Kolyma region, Sakha-Yakutia, Siberia, Russia. He worked … Continue reading →

Snowchange Cooperative participates in the Paris Climate Summit by sending Indigenous delegate to the talks. We are also closely coordinating our efforts in the summit with other allies and partners. Domestically Autumn fisheries are in full swing. Restoration efforts in … Continue reading →

The Barents Observer reports on the recent events with the Skolt Sámi and the gramota scroll, Snowchange featured as well. It is here.

China Dialogue has released a major Snowchange article. It is available here.

Forager Magazine is out, featuring Snowchange and other TEK contents. You can read it here.

Snowchange Discussion Paper 9 documents the efforts of the Näätämö River Collaborative Management Project from May 2014 to September 2015. Sámi weather observations of northern climate change are included. Oil tanker adrift in the close-by fjord cause a major disaster … Continue reading →

A new Snowchange -related thesis, “Arctic Voices from the Frontlines of a Warming World: The Importance of Indigenous Knowledge in the Climate Change Discourse” by Eleanor R. M. Waters, from the University of Vienna is now available online. Arctic ice … Continue reading →

Summer is slowly behind us. One of the coldest summers here in Finland did not prevent community work in Selkie, Näätämö watershed, and other regions. This September Snowchange participates with a large delegation to the international ELOKA Workshop to be … Continue reading →