Author Archives: Snowchange

In January over 380 hectares of old growth and natural forests have been included into the Landscape Rewilding Programme. Additionally a site in Suomussalmi celebrates the legacy of a Karelian rune singer Jussi Huovinen. Pauttiselkä old growth forest is a … Continue reading →

Snowchange Pacific Tour has ended. Visits and collaborations extended across Tasmania, Aoteroroa, Vanuatu and ended with visits to restoration and partner sites in British Columbia. In Finnish Sámi area a major conservation breakthrough emerged from discovery of new population of … Continue reading →

Restoration season comes to an end with cleaning of spawning sites on river Koitajoki, and attention focuses on the Pacific – the Taumako Traditional Culture and Voyaging School Opens and a New Pacific Tour brings Snowchange delegates to Tasmania, New Zealand … Continue reading →

September closes with fisheries, fish exports and rewilding season drawing towards its end. Large gatherings at the Arctic Circle peatlands and in Koitajoki were a major highlight of this month and new StoryMaps highlight the International Week of Peatlands in … Continue reading →

End of August and September bring an international week devoted to the boreal peatlands. A major 450 hectare forest-peatland complex secured in Muonio, Northwestern Finland. Sámi restoration burns enabled recovery of a forest in Ivalo. As we head to September, … Continue reading →

After much waiting the much-anticipated Unalakleet Climate and Indigenous Knowledge Database has been released. Rhe Unalakleet Climate Events Database, which presents over 20 years of research materials, oral histories and Indigenous views on climate change affecting Unalakleet and Norton Sound, … Continue reading →

August is here and in this newsletter we highlight a sweeping new collaboration with the Culture & Heritage Department, Gwich’in from NWT, Canada, and report the recent restoration of Makkaralatva-aapa, a large peatland at the Arctic Circle in Finland. Culture … Continue reading →

Chief Edwin Ogar from the Ekuri Forest in Nigeria passed away earlier in the year. Snowchange has produced together with the Chief’s daughter, Nlohojie Ogar, a major documentary session available to all. It was filmed during the week before Chief’s … Continue reading →

At the outset of deep summer Snowchange fisheries come to a close. In restoration inventories of new 100 hectare OGF forest-peatland complex in Siikajoki, Ilvesmaa and Leväkangas proceed. A new marine scientist Annukka Pekkarinen, also an accomplished marine sailor, joins … Continue reading →

Two important Snowchange-related reports and science released today – the Sámi Truth and Reconciliation Report on Waters and Haida Research Framework for learning X̱aad Kíl. Today in Inari Snowchange is involved in the release of the Sámi Truth and Reconciliation … Continue reading →