Category Archives: News

Spring has brought a cold spell into the Finnish boreal. May fisheries are not yet starting but boats are being tarred and preparations are under way. Staff is preparing for a big rewilding season.  Global Change Biology has published an … Continue reading →

In September 2020, a fisherman residing in the Nibela region of South Africa, which aquatic resources are now under the authority of the iSimangaliso Wetland Park (a designated World Heritage Site by United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)) was shot … Continue reading →

April is here. Winter fisheries are still ongoing with standing gill nets in lake Pyhäjärvi. Two international US-based media stories highlight Snowchange work: Atmos reports on the Snowchange contributions to the IPCC and linking colonialism with climate change, available here. Mongabay … Continue reading →

Two recently included highly significant old growth forest sites totalling 50 hectares, one in North Karelia and the other in Inari Sami home area herald the Spring for the Landscape Rewilding Programme. Site in North Karelia: Jaakonvaara is a old-growth forest … Continue reading →

“I have seen many scientific reports in my time, but nothing like this. Today’s IPCC report is an atlas of human suffering and a damning indictment of failed climate leadership. With fact upon fact, this report reveals how people and the planet … Continue reading →

Seija Sivertsen (nee Feodoroff), Skolt Sámi knowledge holder, language teacher and a traditional fisher passed on 22nd February, 2022. Snowchange salutes the life work of this outstanding Indigenous woman. Seija was born in mid-1950s in the Skolt Sámi community of … Continue reading →

Snowchange has begun the assessment and reviewing of rewilding activities on Pahajoenjänkä, a sub-Arctic aapa peatland in Salla, Lapland. Substantial actions are planned for 2022. Pahajoenjänkä is a 105-hectare sub-Arctic aapa peatland rewilding site in Salla community in Lapland. It has substantial … Continue reading →

In this moving and insightful episode climate activist Mitzi Jonelle Tan speaks to CCAG’s Dr Tero Mustonen and TV presenter and paralympic medallist Ade Adepitan. Available here.

February seining is under way with teams on the ice. Fish is coming, but ice conditions are challenging. Snowchange winter seining team is harvesting vendace on the ice. Fish has been coming, but since end of January the conditions have … Continue reading →

  The Landscape Rewilding Programme and the state of Finland have agreed to formally protect 1139 hectares (apps. 2800 acres) of peatlands and forest ecosystems in the Sub-Arctic. Lands continue to be owned by Snowchange and local community actions, including … Continue reading →