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The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation has protected an area of over 40 hectares in Enontekiö with the help of the Upper Lapland old-growth forest fundraiser. The new conservation area consists of two boggy, wooded lots located approximately ten kilometres apart to the east and southeast of the centre of Enontekiö. 

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation has purchased a forest with a high tree density in Kuhmalahti, in the municipality of Kangasala, to turn it into a conservation area. The conservation area will be called Laipansalo after the legendary forest located to the south of the area.

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation’s A Home for the Boreal Owl fundraising campaign has been brought to a successful end, and the Foundation has protected the Boreal Owl’s Forest in Hausjärvi. The new, 16-hectare conservation area was found right on the border between the Uusimaa and Kanta-Häme regions. The forest has long been owned by the same family, and it has remained fairly untouched.

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation has purchased Penninkijoki forest, which extends to more than 18 hectares. This is a beautiful mosaic of bogs and moors on the border of Perho and Halsua in Central Ostrobothnia.