Author Archives: Snowchange

In this moving and insightful episode climate activist Mitzi Jonelle Tan speaks to CCAG’s Dr Tero Mustonen and TV presenter and paralympic medallist Ade Adepitan. Available here.

February seining is under way with teams on the ice. Fish is coming, but ice conditions are challenging. Snowchange winter seining team is harvesting vendace on the ice. Fish has been coming, but since end of January the conditions have … Continue reading →

  The Landscape Rewilding Programme and the state of Finland have agreed to formally protect 1139 hectares (apps. 2800 acres) of peatlands and forest ecosystems in the Sub-Arctic. Lands continue to be owned by Snowchange and local community actions, including … Continue reading →

New paper published last week summarizes a century of knowledge from the Kwakwaka’wakw home communities in British Columbia, Canada. This paper reviews a century of Kwakwaka’wakw knowledge on ecological, climate, and social change. We trace the era of Indigenous governance (about … Continue reading →

As we close for the holiday season, a large US media story by Mongabay highlights the troubles of the Inari Sami in Finnish North.  Mongabay reports: In Finland’s northern Arctic landscape, the Indigenous Inari Sámi community practice a unique form … Continue reading →

Rautavaara (Ruʹvddvääʹrr) OGF is a Skolt Sámi Indigenous forest area, totalling 108 hectares of preserved and recovering habitats in the Rautaperäjärvi lake basin has many ecological values left.  Rautavaara (Ruʹvddvääʹrr) OGF is a Skolt Sámi Indigenous forest in the north … Continue reading →

Alaska Pacific University Professor, Inupiaq Professor Victoria Hykes-Steere (Unalakleet/Anchorage) joins Wilson Justin (Nabesna, Alaska) in reviewing the moment in time in the context of climate change and Alaska Indigenous priorities.  They position the changes of now with the past events and … Continue reading →

Tällberg-SNF-Eliasson Global Leadership Prize is awarded annually to outstanding leaders—in any field and any country— who demonstrate the willingness and capacity to address the complexity of 21st-century challenges in innovative, risk-taking, and ethical ways, and whose work is global in … Continue reading →

A recording of the Need to Be Cold Panel from COP is now available, featuring Snowchange, Sámi and Siberian leaders. You can see it here.

A new science paper co-authored with two Indigenous co-authors on the wild reindeer of Eastern Siberia is out today. Available here. This paper reviews oral histories and established scientific materials regarding wild rein‐ deer (Rangifer tarandus spp.) in the Southern Sakha‐Yakutia, … Continue reading →