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…
The founder of the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation, Mr Pentti Linkola, who serves as the chairman of the board, celebrated his 80th anniversary on 7 December 2012. In honour of his birthday, we started a fund-raising campaign with a great result: 98 932 euros. Mr Linkola’s dream of having primeval forests protected has become reality,…
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 will start a special fund-raising campaign on 7 December 2012 to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its chairman, Pentti Linkola, who established the foundation. The campaign will last until the end of the year. Pentti Linkola, a Finnish fisherman and author, used to dream of buying primeval forests for conservation….
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…
The foundation starts collecting funds among the successful entrepreneurs in the Häme region with a campaign that will last until the end of the year. We aim at having at least one natural forest area protected in the region. With the campaign, we also want to show respect for the fisherman and writer Pentti Linkola,…
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…
The Natural Heritage Foundation uses donated funds to buy old forests that are in as natural a condition as possible and apply for permanent protection of their forests in accordance with the Nature Conservation Act.
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