What’s New

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation has acquired two nearly intact old-growth forest stands in the Paimela region of Hollola. With the help of a birthday fund-raising campaign arranged by Mr Pertti Salolainen, MP, and his additional donations we were also able to purchase a third patch, which complements the southern border of one of the…

The largest of the areas protected by the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation expands again as another 42 hectares of the central parts of the Kivisuo mire in Kuusamo were purchased in December. More than half of the extension area consists of open mires. The largest of Kivisuo’s shallow open water pools belong to this part,…

Kuovisuo (Curlew mire) is a beautiful small open mire which remains, for the most part, undrained. Willow grouse still lives here, and on early mornings in late May one can hear the bright tones of the rustic bunting on its edges. Three hectares of the heathlands are nearly one hundred years old and in natural…

Late summer The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation bought 20 hectares of land near the town of Ivalo in northern Lapland. The lush forest on the bank of the Ivalojoki River is currently being protected. The forest will be named Kuusimukka according to the Lappish word mukka meaning a bend in a river or road, and…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation gets a new largest protected area as the Aarnivalkea protected forest in Kuusamo expands to a nearby mire. The Foundation acquired a 62 hectare parcel of land in late October to the northeast of Aarnivalkea. As a result, the total area under protection will now be 118 hectares. The southern…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation recently acquired a forest of approximately 18 hectares in the Kolho region, located in Mänttä-Vilppula close to the northern border of the Pirkanmaa province. There was a campaign launched together with the Pirkanmaa ornithological association in 2014 to collect funds for a primeval forest to be found for the province….

There will be a new conservation area created in Töysä, Alavus, where the foundation purchased a forest of approximately 30 hectares. The area borders in four places on four different ponds, and since the Finnish name ‘Lampila’ refers to the ponds, we have decided that the original name is suitable also for the new conservation…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation made a deal about a forest piece of more than 19 hectares at the end of May in the Kylmäkoski village in Juuka, North Karelia. The forest, which is located at a distance of a few ten kilometres west-northwest of the Koli hill, will be called Havukkakorpi (‘Hawk’s Wilderness’). The…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation acquired at the end of April an area of 7,5 hectares in the Nokkola village in Hollola, south of Lahti, on the eastern bank of the Luhdanjoki section in the Porvoonjoki river. The deal was made through a middleman following a competitive bidding won by the foundation. The new conservation…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation acquired an area of about 24 hectares in the vicinity of Lake Lestijärvi in Ostrobothnia in the middle of February. Approximately 14 hectares of the area is made up of a forest with the remaining part consisting of a private water area. The conservation area will be named after the…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation acquired the Rouvala farm of 16 hectares in the Nyystölä village in Padasjoki, over 10 hectares of the area being covered by woodland. The majority of the deal was financed by a private donor, who decided to remain anonymous. The farm was sold by the Kakko siblings, whose parents had…

The total area protected by the swamp campaign shared by the Ostrobothnia conservation district and the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation has grown with 15 hectares, thanks to the parcel of Syrjäjoki swamp land acquired by the foundation. The area, which follows the Syrjäjoki brook more than a kilometre, will be named Syrjäjoki. The Syrjäjoki area…

Together with the Satakunta district, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation has searched for primeval forests in the Satakunta region for ten years already. We once purchased the Tapiola area in Noormarkku, and the remaining resources allowed us to acquire another area with even more trees. Tapiolanvainio is located in the village of Ahvenus, a little…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation obtained its third conservation area in the Satakunta region with the purchase of the 3,2-hectare Arkinmäki forest in Rauma. The deal was financed by an association called Rauman seudun luonnonystävät with the help of the resources donated by the association for the conservation fund of the Satakunta nature conservation district….

The swamp campaign shared by the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation and the Ostrobothnia conservation district has once again led to results. With the financial support of the Ostrobothnia district, the foundation acquired an undrained swamp of over 60 hectares along with some nearby forest in Halsua. The area is located northeast of the Penninkijoki river,…

The forest area acquired in May in the village of Nalkki in Puolanka has been expanded by the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation. This intimate area is located along with its heaths and swamps by the clear waters of the Tulijoki river. – The additional section is situated by the Tulijoki river. The extention is small,…

Over 50 hectares of a forest located in the village of Nalkki in Puolanka became the new property of the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation at the end of May. The atmospheric area characterized by heaths and pine swamps is located by the clear waters of the Tulijoki river. The forests of the Tulijoki area are…

Metsänpeitto, the forest dedicated to Mr Pentti Linkola, has expanded as a result of a purchase on 4,5 additional hectares from the northwestern side of the area, a deal closed by the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation in March. This forest, which already covers nearly 18 hectares and contains plenty of decayed wood, is uncommon for…

Kaikkallio, a forest of over 17 hectares, became our property just before Christmas in 2013. It is located in the southern part of Imatra, a few kilometres from the state border. It was the heirs of a man named Juho Rossi who decided to sell us this fascinating forest. Two thirds of the forest is…

Metsänpeitto, a forest acquired by the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation at the end of November, is a rare one for a forest growing in southern Finland. This virgin forest of almost 14 hectares with plenty of decayed wood is standing in the vicinity of the Laukeela village centre in Urjala. We have decided to dedicate…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation managed to receive its fourth conservation area in Central Finland when a man named Samuli Hintikka decided to sell us his family forest of over seven hectares in the eastern part of Konnevesi. The Linnunlaulu forest is located in the village of Kärkkäiskylä in Konnevesi. The forest is mostly a…

In August 2013, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation came into possession of Aarnivalkea, a 56-hectare area of forest and swamp in Kuusamo. The area is located less than ten kilometres southwest of the church of Kuusamo, by the southern edge of the Kivisuo region. The Aarnivalkea area belongs to an unusually intact wilderness close to…

In August 2013, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation acquired a piece of old spruce forest close to the Lannevesi region in Saarijärvi. A large section of the Mörkökorpi forest is about over a hundred years old virgin-like forest with old, tall deciduous trees growing all over the place, mostly birches. Part of the forest has…

The number of areas placed under protection by the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation in the Häme region became larger in June 2013 with the Harjava area of forest and meadow. This area, located in Kalvola in Hämeenlinna, covers about 6,3 hectares. The wet and winding meadows of Harjava are surrounded by a forest that has…

The 17,6-hectare area called Metsäranta, located on the Hiirettelänvuori hill in the municipality of Iitti, became our property at the end of May. The Kuukkelimetsä Kymenlaaksoon campaign, which the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation started with a local ornithological association in Kymenlaakso in 2008, started finally bearing fruit. Except for the top of the hill, Metsäranta…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation acquired its first conservation area in the Kainuu region in May, and it was about an approximately ten-hectare area called Pahapuro in Ristijärvi. The area includes almost a kilometre of a brook that flows in its natural state surrounded by trees. Pahapuro is located less than 15 kilometres east or…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation acquired well over 18 more hectares of the Heinineva bog in Alajärvi in May 2013. The new area includes a small forest-covered islet on the northeast side. Together with the Ostrobothnia conservation district, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation started a shared campaign for quagmires in the spring of 2012. The…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation bought in April 2013 an old forest of over five hectares in Tyysteri, Porvoo. It was a precious deal because forest conservation is not as common in the eastern part of the Uusimaa region as it is in the rest of the country. The forest will be called Tomteskog.  The…

Just before Christmas 2012, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation acquired an area called Metsäpirtti, a forest of seven hectares in Nyrölä, Uurainen. Over half of the area is made up of an almost hundred-year-old spruce forest growing in the middle of the backwoods. The environment is diversified by its wetlands: there are rivulets and brooks…

In the spring of 2012, the foundation and the Ostrobothnia conservation district started a campaign for bogs, and as a result, the foundation has now managed to acquire 16 hectares of the Heinisuo bog in Alajärvi. The area was offered to us by its owner, Teemu Hauta-aho, who was inspired by the campaign and decided…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation closed a good deal in September 2012 receiving more land to be placed under protection. The three-hectare forest area in Lautsia in Hauho became the foundation’s smallest conservation area, which is, however, characterized by exuberance and diversity. There are old spruces growing in the middle wit a little bog in…

Recently, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation managed to acquire an 80-hectare forest area in Lapland, including hundreds of metres of the Ivalo River bank. The deal was made possible by a private benefactor who loves what nature has to offer in Lapland. Pyrynmaa is located in Inari, southwest of the populated area of Ivalo. The…