What’s New

Right at the end of 2011, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation bought seven additional hectares to the Keijunsuo swamp acquired in the early summer of the same year. As a result, there was a 14-hectare area born south of Lake Paloniitunjärvi in Renko, an area bounded by the 90-hectare conservation area established for the lake…

In November, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation acquired an approximately 45-hectare area, which was once a raised bog used for the purpose of peat production, next to the Konttikangas conservation area in Siikajoki. It belongs to the 300-hectare bog area of Karjoneva. This bog area will be turned into a wetland for birds. The project…

In late October, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation acquired an area of half a hectare south of the Yli-Mylly conservation forest in Loppi. The area has served as a research forest for Metla, the Finnish Forest Research Institute, and we bought it from Metsähallitus, a state-owned enterprise that has land and water areas in its…

In early September, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation managed to get a new conservation area, the first one in Kuusamo. It is a forest of less than 14 hectares located in the village of Lämsänkylä bounded by the Multikoski Rapids flowing freely in the beautiful landscape. The rapids flow from Lake Vuolajärvi into Lake Multijärvi,…

The seven-hectare Keijunsuo Forest in the village of Vehmainen in Renko, has become our foundation’s latest conservation area. It is the first area we have acquired in the town of Hämeenlinna. As a result, we have now thirty conservation areas in our possession. Keijunsuo, also called Keljunsuo, is located south of the Haltianlahti Bay of…

We managed to acquire about 8 more hectares of land to the Tapiola area in Noormarkku in the town of Pori by a deal we made at the end of May. Tapiola has now turned into an area of over 17 hectares with the possibility of becoming even larger in the east. The new section…