October starts, Snowchange has a North American tour slated for the first part of the month. Pärjänjoki, a sub-Arctic river is emerging in the Landscape Rewilding Programme.
In early October Snowchange will have a sets of events and a tour of partner communities in North America. First visits will be made to British Columbia and several First Nations there. Then there are events in California. Lastly an extensive Workshop will bring coordinators, scientists and Indigenous representatives together in northern Minnesota to plan for the North America Snowchange work in 2025.
In Finland, the Landscape Rewilding Progamme has reached a milestone – 6000 hectares (15,000 acres) over 127 sites owned by Snowchange and over 55,000 hectares of areas benefitting from the work. Pärjänjoki river, a sub-Arctic river flowing over 65 kilometers including inside the Syöte national park has been the focus of 2024 with several sites added along this whole river and Snowchange owning a stretch of the river, now protected from mining and other industrial land uses. We celebrate Pärjänjoki and continue restoration efforts along this stream in years to come.