What’s New

The new conservation area is located at the edge of a forested heartland in a quiet region. The soil is exuberant, and the forest is dominated by conifers, except for the Eevanniityt section of old birches sighing in the wind. There is an exceptionally beautiful forest road leading into the area, running alongside the southern…

Towards the end of the autumn, the foundation has managed to purchase three new areas for conservation in North Karelia. The foundation now owns seven areas in this region. The places were found and the deal was made with the help of local nature lovers. The new areas are Ängelmä in Juuka, Yövilkanpuro in the…

Eight hectares of the original coniferous forest of Koillismaa (“the Northeastern Land”) was protected in late October when the Finnish Natural Heritage Fund purchased a piece of nearly 200 years old forest in Pintamo at the eastern edge of the municipality of Pudasjärvi. In order to make the area geometrically simpler and to create a…

The versatile Kruununmaa farm of eight hectares in the Isoneva region of Alavus has belonged to the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation since the end of August. The purchase was financed by a swamp campaign arranged in cooperation by the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation and the Ostrobothnia district of the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation. The…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation was recently given quite a present. Lauri Hakamies, a private person and nature lover from Vaasa, gave us a forest-covered area called Wikskog from Vetlot, an island in the Vöyri region. The island is surrounded by brackish water close to the delta area of the Vöyrinjoki river. The foundation will…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation purchased a small patch of shady spruce forest in Kokkola, on the west coast, in May. The area of this uniform forest consisting of a single-aged tree stand is 4.3 hectares. The trees are approximately 80 years old. Due to decades of benign neglect the forest appears already quite natural….

The new conservation area covers 34 hectares, and together with Lampila, they form a preserved forest of about 74 hectares with its ponds, hills, valleys, and brooks. The deal is of great significance also because there has only been a small number of forests placed under protection in the surroundings.Mr Atte Kaasalainen, who had inherited…

The Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation has acquired two nearly intact old-growth forest stands in the Paimela region of Hollola. With the help of a birthday fund-raising campaign arranged by Mr Pertti Salolainen, MP, and his additional donations we were also able to purchase a third patch, which complements the southern border of one of the…

The largest of the areas protected by the Finnish Natural Heritage Foundation expands again as another 42 hectares of the central parts of the Kivisuo mire in Kuusamo were purchased in December. More than half of the extension area consists of open mires. The largest of Kivisuo’s shallow open water pools belong to this part,…

Kuovisuo (Curlew mire) is a beautiful small open mire which remains, for the most part, undrained. Willow grouse still lives here, and on early mornings in late May one can hear the bright tones of the rustic bunting on its edges. Three hectares of the heathlands are nearly one hundred years old and in natural…