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Just before Christmas 2012, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation acquired an area called Metsäpirtti, a forest of seven hectares in Nyrölä, Uurainen.
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 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 Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation closed a good deal in September 2012 receiving more land to be placed under protection.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In late October, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation acquired an area of half a hectare south of the Yli-Mylly conservation forest in Loppi.
In early September, the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation managed to get a new conservation area, the first one in Kuusamo.