Author Archives: Snowchange

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 →

Snowchange has begun the assessment and reviewing of rewilding activities on Pahajoenjänkä, a sub-Arctic aapa peatland in Salla, Lapland. Substantial actions are planned for 2022. Pahajoenjänkä is a 105-hectare sub-Arctic aapa peatland rewilding site in Salla community in Lapland. It has substantial … Continue reading →

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 →