Category Archives: News

First one is Arctic Resilience Report, available here. And secondly, the Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF), the biodiversity working group of the Arctic Council has released the “Arctic Biodiversity Assessment (ABA)”, a report containing the best available science informed by traditional ecological knowledge on … Continue reading →

22nd April 2013 PRESS RELEASE THE SKOLT SÁMI PROVIDE FIRST NATIONAL COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE NÄÄTÄMÖ WATERSHED AND ATLANTIC SALMON IN FINLAND On 25th April 2013, a new collaborative management plan for the Näätämö/Neiden river will be released in Sevettijärvi, Finland. … Continue reading →

25th April 2013 from 12.00 to 16.00 Finnish time, a Seminar is organised on the Future Development of Neiden River – Lunch served Location: Reindeer farm Toini Sanila, Kirakkajärvi, Sevettijärvi, Finland A seminar will be organised to release the Neiden … Continue reading →

1st February 2013, a broad photo essay publication by the U.N. University was released. The article describes the co-operation between the Skolt Sámi and Snowchange. The article will also be published in the National Geography and Cultural Survival. Read the … Continue reading →

3rd February 2013 Snowchange Cooperative mourns the loss of a prominent keeper of tradition, fisherman Kalevi Vierikka from the community of Sahalahti, in Häme, Finland. He passed away on 27th January 2013 at the age of 84. For a generation … Continue reading →

Second Workshop on Sámi Oral Histories from Jokkmokk, Sweden – 5th March 2013 – 17th January 2013 Version – Updates Expected Tero Mustonen, Ph D, Snowchange Cooperative, Finland tero@snowchange.org Organisers: Snowchange Cooperative and United Nations Association of Finland in cooperation … Continue reading →

On 18th December 2012 a new scholarly report on the Critical Infrastructures in Russia was released by FIIA – Finnish Institute of International Affairs, Snowchange contributed a chapter on the Indigenous issues in Russia – the report is available as … Continue reading →

Over the past two months a lot of work has been done on the oral histories of the communities in North Karelia, Finland. On 23rd November 2012 Snowchange Co-op releases the publication of oral histories collected from Jorma Sonninen, a … Continue reading →

Snowchange visits were made to the Skolt Saami areas in Sevettijärvi, Finland and to Neiden, Norway. Gleb Raygorodetsky from the United Nations University took part in the visit. Then another community round to discuss co-management regime and local Komi and … Continue reading →

Summer is over and Snowchange Co-op work proceeds with full speed. Over the summer documentation of Skolt Saami observations of salmon changes were carried out along the Neiden river on the Finnish side. Simultaneously over 55 people were interviewed along … Continue reading →