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Situation Update 7: Frozen. Finally.

  • November 05, 2024 By taina
ice covered lake, blue sky, and snow covered fell in background

Ounasjärvi (Lake Ounas) froze on the 1st of November, 2024. Snow fell on it the same day and closed down the view of the shiny surface. The winter of the lake has started.

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jää
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Northern forest struggles VI: Metsämieli (Forest mind set)

  • June 24, 2024 By taina
puro ja metsä

I have coined Metsämieli  to describe a state of mind that believes - against all the odds - that things don’t have to be this way: the forest mind believes in the possibility of preserving biodiversity despite the onslaught of the global economy on nature. It is difficult to keep the forest mind set intact and on track when, in the big picture, consumption is only accelerating, greed is taking over the minds of fellow human beings, and the destruction machine is rampaging everywhere.

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välttämättömyys
suojelu
vaellus
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The Northern Forest Sturggle V: Tyranny of current generations and contemporary colonialism

  • June 10, 2024 By taina
hakattujen metsien kaistaleet maisemassa

"The unregulated, effectively lawless framework of global finance attracts and empowers a new category of criminals and psychopaths, especially now, with fewer or no constraints on the looting of social wealth and natural resources." (Jonathan Crary: Scorched Earth)

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nykypolvien tyrannia
saamenmaa
suojelu
vaurastuminen
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Northern forest struggle III: The Hetta-Pallas route in grave danger!

  • June 04, 2024 By taina
vaellusreitti

The national park is starting to be surrounded by logging and roads. The latest in this chain: one of the plots of land between the boat peer and the northern boundary of the national park, through which the legendary Hetta-Pallas hiking trail runs, has been bought by a large forestry company. At this rate, the park will remain an isolated island of protection, even though it is well known that the most important thing for preserving biodiversity is the interconnectedness of protected areas.

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hakkuut
Pallas-Yllästunturit
vaellus
reitti
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Northern forest struggle II: Wilderness

  • June 02, 2024 By taina
iso suo, tunturit ja metsä

I don't assume anyone can numerically define when a wilderness - more commonly here known as a kaira – loses its wilderness character. For example, what is the amount of noise that still blends into its environment so that organisms (including us) can feel at peace in the wilderness?

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kaira
erämaa
erämaisuus
melu
hakkuut
metsäkiista
metsäautotiet
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The Northern Forest Struggle I: Good and bad news

  • May 31, 2024 By taina
suo, metsä ja Pyhäkero tunturi

The pine forests of the North are efficient carbon sinks, valuable habitat loss mitigators and essential for local people's livelihoods such as reindeer husbandry, hunting-gathering and nature tourism. Despite this, near pristine forests, where endangered species and indicator species of old-growth forests are found, are getting logged in Enontekiö.

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metsä
sellu
ullatieva
luonnonperintösäätiö
suojelu
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Situation update 6

  • May 25, 2024 By taina
järvi, tunturi, ja kuu

The lake is ice free since 25th of May.

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Ounastie 165, 99400 Enontekiö
Aikataulut/Bus schedule: Matkahuolto.

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