Author Archives: Snowchange

January is here. We have a release of the much-anticipated Tahltan Database, winter seining is under way under prime ice conditions and rewilding work focuses on the Sub-Arctic Peatlands. As a part of the Arctic Passion EU Horizon project the … Continue reading →

Thanks to all partners, friends, allies, foes and alike for a massive year! We wish all the best for 2025 and a great holiday season. We are back in action in early January. Please check out the story of the … Continue reading →

The Sámi forest of Alttokangas, 72 ha in size, is located in the municipality of Inari and is the first ICCA (Indigenous and Community Conserved Area) in the Sámi Home Area.  ICCAs are protected by Indigenous Peoples and/or local communities … Continue reading →

Climate Breakthrough Award will make it possible to enable peatland restoration and protection on several sites from Finland to North American boreal. Climate Breakthrough Award program is uniquely designed for social change leaders to develop, launch, and scale their new … Continue reading →

November and winter are soon here. Koitajoki restoration and other rewilding actions are drawing to a close with the large peatland of Lakkasuo completed, as well as over 1350 hectares in Koitajoki alone. Visits to Canada and US pave way … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

An American production company PrettyGoodProductions and Snowchange have finished a new documentary film about Koitajoki after three years of work. It is free to watch online. Seining for a Song is a documentary by the American film director Thomas Miller, … Continue reading →

As the late-summer sun sets in the doorway of a hundred-year-old barn on the shores of Lake Mekrijärvi, Eastern Finland, Sutej Hugu sings about catching flying fish in the waters of his home island – Pongso no Tao – which … Continue reading →

Fourth Festival of Northern Fishing Traditions, conceptualized by Olli Klemola, one of Snowchange founders in 2000s, brings over 40 international and Indigenous delegates to North Karelia to learn from restoration, river seining and Snowchange fisheries. Additionally dozens more will come … Continue reading →

August is here and with that we are only four weeks from the 4th Festival of Northern Fishing Festival! Summer enabled over 400 hectares of pristine and restoration peatlands to be added from Ranua, close to Arctic Circle and Arctic … Continue reading →