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Restoration of Urban Longinoja Brook Wins Finnish Biodiversity Award
The Longinoja Creek restoration project
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Tagged biodiversity, fish migration, restoration, rivers, trout
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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 […]
Fishy Cartoons Exhibition
Cartoons by Seppo Leinonen in the Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki until 15th October 2017 – Now provided with English translations!
Are you familiar with ruff, bullhead and ninespine stickleback? There are lots of funny fishes in Finland, which many of us have never seen. The exhibition by cartoonist Seppo Leinonen in the café […]
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Tagged biodiversity, cartoons, conservation, endangered species, fishes, fishing, humour, invasive species, lakes and seas, overfishing, rivers
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Wetland is a water bank
Wetlands help to cope with floodings and other extreme weather events.
World Wetlands Day: 2th February 2017.
More info & material in English, Spanish and French.
Cartoon in Spanish:Cartoon in French:Cartoon in Arabic:Cartoon in Greek:
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Tagged biodiversity, birds, bugs, climate, conservation, fishes, floogings, lakes and seas, nature, ramsar, wetland
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