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he Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation has protected a forest ravaged by a thunderstorm in Hannusranta in Kajaani. The conservation area, which was named Paatsamakorpi, was hit by a strong downburst in June 2020, which left the forest with hundreds of cubic metres of windthrow. The moist mixed forest is over a hundred years old and now covers over 10.5 hectares.

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation has purchased an area of dense forest in Marttila, Southwest Finland, which will be designated as a permanently protected area. The original name of the area, Palomäki, will be changed to Kaunilanmaa according to the wishes of the previous owners of the estate.

Pentti Linkola’s memorial forest will be founded in Riuttasalo in Toivakka, which is located in Central Finland near Päijänne, as a joint purchase by the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation and Päijänne Natural Heritage Foundation. Kurikanvuori in Sahalahti, in Kangasala in the Pirkanmaa region, will be protected as Pertti Linkola’s memorial grove.

The Natural Heritage Foundation has recently purchased a handsome forest in Somero in Southwest Finland. Pyysmäki forest is located in the most south-westerly part of the southern boreal coniferous zone in Southwestern Häme. The eight-hectare forest consists mostly of spruce-dominated fresh heath of the bilberry type, with tall pines, old silver birch, and thick aspen.

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation, the societies Etelä-Savon lintuharrastajat Oriolus ry, Itä-Savon luonnonsuojeluyhdistys ry and Kangasniemen Luonto ry, as well as Keep the Archipelago Tidy and the South Savo district of the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation launched a campaign in July 2021 with the aim to find and protect a home for the golden oriole in the forests of South Savo.

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation recently purchased approximately twenty hectares of forest in Paimela, between Lahti and Vääksy, which has been named Päivänsalo.

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation has bought three plots of land of approximately one hectare each on Aittosaari island in the lake Keitele in Viitasaari.

A wish by Jalo Heikkinen, the writer and cultural strongman in Northern Kainuu, who passed away in late 2020, was realized in April when the forest surrounding his home was transferred to the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation.

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation and the Foundation of August Ludvig Hartwall launch a fund-raising campaign together for the purpose of setting up and protecting an area to be named the Children’s Forest. The start-up capital comes from the Foundation of August Ludvig Hartwall, which is also involved in launching the project. The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation is in charge of finding and protecting the forest.

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation recently acquired for protection a forest area by the side of a popular outdoor recreation route in the Liperi region of North Karelia, approximately 20 kilometres from Joensuu. The forest is almost entirely abundant with trees, being made up of an old pine stand growing on a heath of lingonberry…

Kaj Törngren, a man who loved nature, left the majority of his estate, a farm in Sipoo together with its forests and fields, to the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation. He mostly allowed his forests to grow in peace and kept some of them fully intact. This valuable legacy enables us to protect three forests, which…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation inherited a valuable testamentary donation from Vieremä, a municipality located in Northern Savonia, Finland. Mr. Veikko Savolainen, who died last spring, left to the foundation a large forest estate. The Puroniitty nature reserve covers whopping 105 hectares in size and the property has now been protected for the generations to…