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Category Archives: Environment
When a finger points at the moon…
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Tagged action, climate, coal, consumption, eco-efficiency, fridaysforfuture, gas, global action, greta thunberg, oil, peat, schoolstrike
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Save the EU Water Law
The sources of Europe’s water are protected under EU law – but many EU governments want to weaken the law. Together, we MUST stop this from happening.Sign the petition and tell the European Commission to keep our water law strong!
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Tagged fishpassages, lakes, protectwater, restoration, rivers, water, waterframedirective, waterlaw, wetlands
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Free Flowing New Year!
Dams disrupt river ecosystems.
“Migratory fishes are fishes that swim either short or long distances daily, annually or longer, as a way to complete their life cycle, feed and/or make love! Some migratory fishes migrate up and down rivers, others between rivers and oceans, and others across entire oceans. Some migratory fish species you may know? […]
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Tagged biodiversity, dams, endangered species, environmental flow, fish migration, fishes, rivers
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Finland clear-cuts forests at accelerating rate
Forestry in Finland has been so intensive and harsh, that even formerly common forest species, like Willow Tit, are in trouble. In 2015 it was classified as vulnerable on the Red List because of population declines.
Finnish government wants to increase wood harvests by nearly 25 %. This will further reduce forest biodiversity and carbon sink […]
Endangered Ministry of the Environment
New Prime Minister of Finland, Juha Sipilä aims to finish the Ministry of the Environment. Environmental issues would be relocated to the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and then it would be renamed as the Ministry of Natural Resources. At the same time the resources for the environmental supervision would be scaled down radically. The […]
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Tagged biodiversity, climate, conservation, endangered species, nature, politicians
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