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Fishy Cartoons Exhibition
Cartoons by Seppo Leinonen in the Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki until 3 September 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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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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Wetlands offer ecosystem services
Wetlands are not wastelands. Happy World Wetland Day 2015!
The cartoon was made for Liminka Bay Ramsar Area exhibition.
Cartoon in Spanish – La caricatura en español:
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Tagged biodiversity, birds, bugs, conservation, ecosystem services, endangered species, mammals, nature, ramsar, wetland
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Farewell to Martha – the last of her kin
On 1 September 1914, in the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio the last Passenger pigeon called Martha died.
Passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly in the world, and its swift extinction is an amazing and scary example of what human activity can achieve.
How did this all […]
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Tagged biodiversity, birds, conservation, endangered species, extinction, forests
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Daddy goes wild for the wildlife
Urban forests are important for people and wildlife. Unfortunately they are, at least in Finland, often managed like commercial forests: thinned, even clearcut and replanted.
Urban forests can be a paradise for people and nature, if they are protected and their biodiversity is taken care of. Let’s let the urban forests grow old and allow also […]
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Tagged biodiversity, conservation, endangered species, forests, outdoors, recreation
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