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RAPUKAVERIA EI JÄTETÄ. CRAYMATES WILL NOT BE LEFT BEHIND. (LIFE+ CrayMate)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2016,

Background Noble crayfish (Astacus astacus) is an endangered endemic species in Europe and in Finland and is listed as ‘vulnerable’ in the IUCN red list. The last abundant native crayfish stocks in Europe are located in the southern and northern parts of Finland and Sweden. The crayfish plays a significant role in Finnish aquatic ecosystems. Stocks of ...
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Arctic Biological, Cultural and Geological heritage (ABCGheritage)

Start date: Mar 22, 2012, End date: Dec 21, 2014,

The objective of the project is to raise awareness of the protected areas and recreational areas on the region known as the Green Balt of Fennoscandia. The areas offer potential in many ways. There is, e.g. a growing interest on geology, growing interest on and knowledge of sustainable utilization of natural resources in tourism, and these possibilities have not yet been utilized. Especially they ...
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Natural Forests and mires in the "Green Belt" of Koillismaa and Kainuu (GreenBelt)

Start date: Jan 1, 2004, End date: May 31, 2008,

Background The project targeted the conservation of forests and mires in 13 Natura 2000 sites in Koillismaa and Kainuu in eastern Finland. The sites form part of the regional “green belt” – an extensive network of forests, mires and fells in Finland, Russia and Norway. The close proximity of these sites to the Russian border is particularly import ...
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Restoration of boreal forests and forest-covered mires (Boreal forests)

Start date: Dec 1, 2002, End date: Dec 31, 2007,

Background Boreal natural forests, esker forests and bog woodlands are considered priority habitats under the Habitats Directive due to their scarcity in the EU. Southern and western Finland in particular has few such forest ecosystems remaining, as most have been substantially modified or replaced by commercial forest operations. Yet even so, their conse ...
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Karelian mires and virgin forests - pearls in the chain of geohistory (Karelian Mires)

Start date: Nov 1, 2002, End date: Jan 31, 2007,

Background The boreal old-growth forests of northern Karelia have a particularly important role to play in the survival of many forest species across the EU. This is because they are located in the border region with Russia, and as such act as ’stepping stones’ for species between Russian forests and other forests within Finland. The mires are equally ...
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Protection and usage of aapa mires with a rich avifauna (Aapa & Avi)

Start date: Nov 1, 2000, End date: Oct 31, 2005,

Background Bogs are an important element in the Finnish countryside. Their ecological and regional diversity in terms of both species and natural habitat types is greater in Finland than in any other area of the same size in the world. The central Lapland aapa mire zone forms a broad belt of wetland areas from east to west in northern Finland. It is impor ...
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Conservation of Cypripedium calceolus and Saxifraga hirculus in Northern Finland (Lady's slipper)

Start date: Dec 1, 2000, End date: May 31, 2005,

Background Lady's slipper (Cypripedium calceolus) and yellow marsh saxifrage (Saxifraga hirculus) are circumpolar species which have been seriously declining, principally as a result of the disappearance of suitable habitats. In the EU these species are to be found most abundantly in Finland and Sweden, although here too they are steadily decreasing. In t ...
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Environmental education cherishing the traditions (Return to the Sources)

Start date: Jan 31, 2002, End date: Dec 30, 2004,

The purpose of the project was to increase the tourist appeal of Kainuu and White Sea Karelia by designing and producing material about the regions nature and the interaction of the local people and culture. Th e project aimed at producing guide and teaching material that could also be used in nature tourism. Th e material was intended to be further processed from the data given by the specialists ...
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motion of Nature Tourism in Oulanka and Paanajärvi National Parks (Promotion of Nature Tourism in Oulanka and Paanajärvi National Parks)

Start date: Dec 31, 2001, End date: Dec 30, 2004,

The Oulanka National Park, which is located in Kuusamo and Salla municipalities, shares a border in the east with Paanajärvi National Park in the Republic of Karelia. Oulanka National Park fulfi ls the requirements set by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and has been included in the European Pan Parks network. Paanajärvi National Park, located in the northwestern region of the R ...
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Protection and management of the valuable wetland Siikalahti (Siikalahti)

Start date: Jan 1, 2001, End date: Dec 31, 2003,

Background Siikalahti is a five kilometre bay in Lake Simpelejärvi, located in south Karelia right on the Russian border. The development of Siikalahti as a birding lake dates back to the lowering of the water level in Lake Simpelejärvi, carried out in the 1830s and 1940s. Today Siikalahti is considered one of the best water areas for birds in Finland a ...
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