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Two most popular National Parks in Finland are in Arctic

Yle News
Posted: Thursday, January 30, 2025 at 15:34
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For some of Finland’s national parks, last year’s visitor numbers had to be estimated based on 2023’s figures. Some of

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General Society Society (Finland) 

Popularity of Finland’s national parks continues to rise, including in Lapland

Yle News
Posted: Friday, January 26, 2024 at 10:40
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Visitors are also spending more money and boosting the economies of communities around the parks. People continue to take advantage

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* Featured * Featured • Zone 3 Finland General Society Society (Finland) 

Finland’s national parks still drawing crowds after pandemic peaks

Yle News
Posted: Monday, August 1, 2022 at 11:49
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Take a look at what keeps drawing people by the thousands to remote and pristine natural areas across the country.

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Society Society (Finland) 

Safety debate sparked in Arctic Finland after hunter shoots cyclist in national park

Yle News
Posted: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 10:28 — Last Updated: Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 13:56
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Metsähallitus said that both the hunter and the biker who was shot were moving around in authorised areas. Hunters are

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Environment Environment (Russia) General Russia 

Old taiga forest in northwest Russia now a nature reserve

Thomas Nilsen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 at 11:14
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Intensive logging is no longer permitted in the 3,000 square kilometres area now known as the Dvina-Pinega nature reserve. “Today,

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Business Business (Russia) General Russia 

Russian Arctic National Park director aims to boost tourism

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, September 27, 2019 at 11:20 — Last Updated: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 at 10:31
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The establishment of a special customs regime around the remote archipelago of Franz Josef Land, in Arctic Russia, would boost

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Sanikiluaq, Nunavut wins $5.5M to lay groundwork for protected area on Belcher Islands

CBC News
Posted: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 at 14:03 — Last Updated: Friday, September 6, 2019 at 10:37
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A project to expand community-driven science and lay the groundwork for a protected conservation area on the Belcher Islands has

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Environment Environment (Russia) General Russia 

Can the environment withstand Arctic Russia’s coal mining boom?

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 14:12 — Last Updated: Monday, August 26, 2019 at 10:40
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Climate crisis and environmental concern notwithstanding, Russia says it aims for a big dig of the carbon-rich rock. Much of

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Final agreement signed to protect Peel watershed in northwestern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 11:54 — Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 14:12
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It has taken more than 15 years of consultations, protests, court battles and more consultations — and now a final

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

Major land use agreement to be signed in Yukon, northwestern Canada

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, August 22, 2019 at 10:24
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It has taken more than 15 years of consultations, protests, court battles and more consultations — and now a final

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General 

New Indigenous protected area created in Northern Canada

Levon Sevunts, Radio Canada International
Posted: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 at 16:13 — Last Updated: Friday, August 23, 2019 at 11:45
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A remote Indigenous community in Canada’s Northwest Territories is celebrating today the creation of a new Indigenous protected area that

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Environment Environment (Russia) General Russia 

Moscow supports Vostok Coal’s expansion into protected Arctic tundra

Atle Staalesen, The Independent Barents Observer
Posted: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 10:46 — Last Updated: Wednesday, August 7, 2019 at 10:52
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Company Vostok Coal has been been fined several hundred million rubles for illegal mining in Russia’s Taymyr Peninsula, but still

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Canada Environment Environment (Canada) General News 

First Nation in Canada’s Northwest Territories votes to support creation of national park reserve

CBC News
Posted: Thursday, February 21, 2019 at 14:06
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Members of the Lutsel K’e Dene First Nation voted in favour of the proposed Thaidene Nene National Park Reserve on

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General News Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Trump’s pick for U.S. Interior secretary has worked for Alaska and energy industry

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Tuesday, February 5, 2019 at 10:49
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U.S. President Donald Trump has nominated David Bernhardt to be the next secretary of Interior, to replace Ryan Zinke. Bernhardt

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General News Politics Politics (USA) USA 

Alaska’s Murkowski aims to revive public lands bill in U.S. Senate

Liz Ruskin, Alaska Public Media
Posted: Thursday, January 3, 2019 at 09:57
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One of Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski’s first priorities in the Congress that begins Thursday is to pass a 680-page public

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In Taloyoak, Nunavut, the northernmost hamlet on mainland Canada, Inuit are working to conserve their territory and set up a community-driven, land-based economy. Photo : Eilís Quinn

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