Category Archives: News

Out today in Polar Biology, a decadal science process culminates with a release of a major science paper from community-based observations of change from Ponoy River catchment, Murmansk, Russia. A Sámi-Russian-Finnish-Swedish-US team investigated the proliferation of Pacific Pink Salmon, introduced … Continue reading →

Snowchange wishes all friends, partners and allies a good holiday season, winter solstice and Happy New Year 2021! We are proud to announce the purchase of “Makkara-latva-aapa“, an Arctic aapa mire in to the Landscape Rewilding Programme. This 330 hectares (815 acres) … Continue reading →

Recently Snowchange was asked to join 40 global thinkers on answering a question: “What is shaping how you think about the planet’s future?“ The process was led by an organisation in the UK called “Invisible Dust“. Answers can be seen … Continue reading →

Waters of Health 2020 is a new action on climate change combining Indigenous and scientific knowledge in monitoring in the Finnish-Norwegian borderlands and in the Murmansk region, Russia, funded by the Nordic Environmental Finance Corporation – NEFCO. Waters of Health … Continue reading →

At 98, Impi Salonen (1922-2020), from the partly ceded Korpiselkä community in North Karelia, Finland, has passed on. Together with her husband Veikko (6.3.1921-10.9.2007), Impi was considered a key heritage person of the Karelian ways of life after the war. … Continue reading →

“UNESCO Green Citizens values citizens projects and brings together the energies of local and international actors of change worldwide to give wings to innovative, impactful and duplicable projects for the planet.” Snowchange Sámi work with the Näätämö Co-Management Project has … Continue reading →

Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA) announces today, from the Sámi Parliament in Kárášjohka, in the Norwegian part of Sápmi, that Sámi artists Pauliina Feodoroff, Máret Ánne Sara and Anders Sunna will represent Sápmi, their Sámi homeland, and transform the Nordic Pavilion into the Sámi … Continue reading →

A research opinion out today in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, titled “Cultural and Linguistic Diversities are under appreciated pillars of biodiversity” features many Snowchange operational areas from  Senegal to Sámi area to Siberia and Taiwan. Resilience magazine … Continue reading →

“Finland’s Climate Warriors” is a 30 min documentary released by the SBS Dateline in Australia that features Landscape Rewilding by Snowchange. Attached multimedia website  digs deeper into community-led restoration work. Filmed over the past 6 months, “Finland’s Climate Warriors” is an … Continue reading →

Join Snowchange and Global Tapestry of Alternatives on an important online event this Friday 1.30 PM UTC. Tero Mustonen from Snowchange reviews the latest from the boreal and Arctic North and discusses the progress made on the Landscape Rewilding Programme in … Continue reading →