Category Archives: News

The Kosisi village in the Ysabel Province, Solomon Islands developed over the past year community-based protocols to maintain biolcultural systems, enabled food security and supported gendered ways of knowing. Following many similar successes over the past year, Snowchange opens second … Continue reading →

The wild forest reindeer (Rangifer tarandus fennicus) was hunted to extinction in early 1900s in Finland. The last bull reindeer was killed in North Karelia, in Ilomantsi in 1918. Then, in 1960s, the stocks re-emerged slowly from Russian Karelia and … Continue reading →

This week we bid farewell to staff member James Reo, 22-year-old New Yorker, who has been working in the fisheries, rewilding of ecosystems and Sámi Indigenous issues with Snowchange for a year. Mr. Reo is heading back to the US to … Continue reading →

This discussion paper is authored by Vasilii Robbek, an Even leader and scholar from Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. It contains the English and Russian versions of the speech and presentation Prof. Robbek delivered at the World Expo 2005 in Aichi, Japan in … Continue reading →

Burning days of July are here, with record high temperatures across the region. Fisheries continue and rewilding efforts. BBC World Service visited recently with Snowchange and has released their episode “Walking the Iron Curtain“. The episode is available here. BBC … Continue reading →

Two new international publications – Society for Ecological Restoration Newsletter and science journal State of the Total Environment discuss Snowchange rewilding work.  SERNEWS – Volume 36 Issue 2 is dedicated to Traditional Ecological Knowledge in restoration. It features a in-depth review … Continue reading →

Summer is here. First fish shipments from Snowchange to Europe have succeeded and we look forwards the developments of the fishery. At home large fish traps are yielding bream, ide and pikeperch. This month Snowchange and the Endangered Landscapes Programme partner … Continue reading →

A new science article about the mercury and Indigenous knowledge has been published. These Indigenous collaborations happened before the war. The Ponoi River basin occupies a remote wilderness area in northwestern Russia near the borders of Norway and Finland. It … Continue reading →

Snowchange has partnered with local ecologists and villagers to investigate the possibilities for community-led rewilding in India – in the Bhavani river catchment. A year of preliminary discussions, baseline investigations and community visits has been completed. The work has included … Continue reading →

Today the municipality of Tohmajärvi in North Karelia has sold the former school of Tietäväinen to Snowchange. The first rewilding center of Finland has been thus established. The Tietäväinen school is located on the Asematie in the municipality of Tohmajärvi, … Continue reading →