Category Archives: News

Summer is here. First fish shipments from Snowchange to Europe have succeeded and we look forwards the developments of the fishery. At home large fish traps are yielding bream, ide and pikeperch. This month Snowchange and the Endangered Landscapes Programme partner … Continue reading →

A new science article about the mercury and Indigenous knowledge has been published. These Indigenous collaborations happened before the war. The Ponoi River basin occupies a remote wilderness area in northwestern Russia near the borders of Norway and Finland. It … Continue reading →

Snowchange has partnered with local ecologists and villagers to investigate the possibilities for community-led rewilding in India – in the Bhavani river catchment. A year of preliminary discussions, baseline investigations and community visits has been completed. The work has included … Continue reading →

Today the municipality of Tohmajärvi in North Karelia has sold the former school of Tietäväinen to Snowchange. The first rewilding center of Finland has been thus established. The Tietäväinen school is located on the Asematie in the municipality of Tohmajärvi, … Continue reading →

Spring has brought a cold spell into the Finnish boreal. May fisheries are not yet starting but boats are being tarred and preparations are under way. Staff is preparing for a big rewilding season.  Global Change Biology has published an … Continue reading →

In September 2020, a fisherman residing in the Nibela region of South Africa, which aquatic resources are now under the authority of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park (a designated World Heritage Site by United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)) was shot … Continue reading →

April is here. Winter fisheries are still ongoing with standing gill nets in lake Pyhäjärvi. Two international US-based media stories highlight Snowchange work: Atmos reports on the Snowchange contributions to the IPCC and linking colonialism with climate change, available here. Mongabay … Continue reading →

Two recently included highly significant old growth forest sites totalling 50 hectares, one in North Karelia and the other in Inari Sami home area herald the Spring for the Landscape Rewilding Programme. Site in North Karelia: Jaakonvaara is a old-growth forest … Continue reading →

“I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this. Today’s IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership. With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet … Continue reading →

Seija Sivertsen (nee Feodoroff), Skolt Sámi knowledge holder, language teacher and a traditional fisher passed on 22nd February, 2022. Snowchange salutes the life work of this outstanding Indigenous woman. Seija was born in mid-1950s in the Skolt Sámi community of … Continue reading →