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Stop Fake Green EU Finance Rules

WWF EU: “130 NGOs and experts are sounding the alarm on the EU’s green finance rules, the ‘Taxonomy’, and calling for them to be rooted in science. In a detailed joint statement, the groups flag and analyse ten priority areas … Continue reading

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Healthy planet healthy people

Live drawings for the WWF Fuller Symposium October 22 2019 with Auli helping with data & ideas. Leading health and environment experts discussed the relationship and complexity between human health and environmental systems and what we need to do to … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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