Author Archives: Snowchange

Snowchange, the community of Ala-Koita fishermen, PrettyGoodProductions and the Interreg SHAPE project release a new film, “Koitajoki”. This short documentary focuses on an iconic, but highly endangered cultural fishery in Karelia – river seining. The film is available here. Koitajoki … Continue reading →

Snowchange partners in Khanty-Mansia, Central Siberia have organised a regional Fishing Festival “Fishing Traditions of the Yugra People” 2019. The Indigenous community of Ilbigorskaya was one of the main partners. This is to prepare for the 2020 Festival of Northern Fishing … Continue reading →

A flagship rewilding and restoration project of Snowchange Co-op, the Jukajoki river restoration in Selkie, North Karelia, Finland, is moving to its final stages for now. Trout spawning areas and juvenile fish habitat restoration is being completed. In 2010 and … Continue reading →

Fishermen Thomas Nkuna and Sabelo Mzileni from the Nibela Zulu community hosted a Snowchange delegation in their homeland in July 2019. The Lake St Lucia estuarine system is the largest natural estuary in South Africa.  It is the most important nursery ground for juvenile marine … Continue reading →

June and early July brought shocking news. Two prominent knowledge keepers, Galina “Keptuke” Varlamova of the Evenki and Teijo Feodoroff, Skolt Sámi Fisherman and Elder, have passed on. Galina “Keptuke” Varlamova was born in 1951 to an Evenki nomadic hunter-reindeer … Continue reading →

A US journal Pacific Standard discusses the plans for the Arctic Railway and preliminary Snowchange assessments which we did for the Sámi Council. Also it reflects on the China geopolitics and presence in the region. Article available here.

Summer is here. Fish traps in North Karelia are full of vendace and both rewilding work, monitoring and international conferences are about to start. The season is the biggest ever in Snowchange history in terms of restoration and community-led climate … Continue reading →

Paul Molyneaux is visiting Snowchange fisheries  in North Karelia, Finland this week. He will visit Selkie at the HQ with fish traps on lake Palojärvi and then spend the day in Puruvesi and in the region visiting with fishing communities in … Continue reading →

In an effort to better address the needs of the Indigenous-rights movement at the grassroots level in the Arctic region, Land is Life has partnered with Snowchange Cooperative, to launch our Indigenous-Led Grantmaking initiative in the North American Arctic. This … Continue reading →

Snowchange fisherman Lauri Hämäläinen travelled last weekend to the SlowFish 2019 event in Genoa, Italy. He premiered the “Koitajoki” river seining film and met with other small-scale fishermen.  Lauri reports: “Chiara Meta and her family hosted me. They were very … Continue reading →