Category Archives: News

Snowchange is collaborating with IUCN and Swedish Biodiversity Center in Biodiversa NARROW project to explore meaning, narratives and positioning of rewilded places and waters. The first science paper has been released to document and discuss the knowns and the unknowns … Continue reading →

Understanding the New Fire project, a joint action by Snowchange and Montpelier and Hampshire Foundations, attempted to summarize the moment in time regarding the proliferating fires of Siberia, understand them from a scientific and Indigenous viewpoint and offer solutions. However, … Continue reading →

Koitajoki basin in North Karelia has received a large restoration grant from Endangered Landscapes Programme from the UK. A 1,5 million support will enable action on over 6  restoration landscapes that will rewild 1000 hectares of peatlands, create biodiversity hotspots, … Continue reading →

Two science processes explore key Snowchange areas in detail. Puruvesi winter seining highlighted in a science paper and Näätämö Sámi co-management in review in a Nordic Council report – available below. The practice of seine fishing for vendace (Coregonus albula) … Continue reading →

The Kosisi village in the Ysabel Province, Solomon Islands developed over the past year community-based protocols to maintain biolcultural systems, enabled food security and supported gendered ways of knowing. Following many similar successes over the past year, Snowchange opens second … Continue reading →

The wild forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) was hunted to extinction in early 1900s in Finland. The last bull reindeer was killed in North Karelia, in Ilomantsi in 1918. Then, in 1960s, the stocks re-emerged slowly from Russian Karelia and … Continue reading →

This week we bid farewell to staff member James Reo, 22-year-old New Yorker, who has been working in the fisheries, rewilding of ecosystems and Sámi Indigenous issues with Snowchange for a year. Mr. Reo is heading back to the US to … Continue reading →

This discussion paper is authored by Vasilii Robbek, an Even leader and scholar from Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. It contains the English and Russian versions of the speech and presentation Prof. Robbek delivered at the World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan in … Continue reading →

Burning days of July are here, with record high temperatures across the region. Fisheries continue and rewilding efforts. BBC World Service visited recently with Snowchange and has released their episode “Walking the Iron Curtain“. The episode is available here. BBC … Continue reading →

Two new international publications – Society for Ecological Restoration Newsletter and science journal State of the Total Environment discuss Snowchange rewilding work.  SERNEWS – Volume 36 Issue 2 is dedicated to Traditional Ecological Knowledge in restoration. It features a in-depth review … Continue reading →