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Activist to Pay Compensations to Power Company for “Damaging the Dam” with Art!
The Kemijoki River in Northern Finland was once maybe the best salmon river in Europe.
The river was dammed after the World War II, and no fish passages were built, so the local salmon population was lost.
Kemijoki Ltd has now 16 hydro power plants in the Kemijoki River. The company wants to build one more with […]
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Tagged art, fish, fish migration, fishing, hydro power, law, restoration, rivers, salmon, water framework directive
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Fish Migration from Sea to Source
Migratory fish are in trouble
At least half of all the flow in the world’s rivers is manipulated or fragmented, and the wild free flowing rivers are now more threatened than ever. Only 64 of the 177 rivers, longer than 1,000 km, are free-flowing and yet there are plans to build more than 3,500 new large […]
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Tagged dam, fish migration, fishes, fishing, hydro power, lakes and seas, restoration, wetland
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For a Friend of Free Flowing Rivers
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Tagged fish migration, fishes, fishing, flyfishing, love, rivers, streamer, valentines day
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Fishy Cartoons Exhibition
Cartoons by Seppo Leinonen in the Finnish Museum of Natural History in Helsinki until 15th October 2017 – Now provided with English translations!
Are you familiar with ruff, bullhead and ninespine stickleback? There are lots of funny fishes in Finland, which many of us have never seen. The exhibition by cartoonist Seppo Leinonen in the café […]
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Tagged biodiversity, cartoons, conservation, endangered species, fishes, fishing, humour, invasive species, lakes and seas, overfishing, rivers
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Oceans 14
Ahoy! If you’re interested in salty waters and marine conservation, sail to Scotland next August! There’s a very interesting meeting for sailors, landlubbers and scientists interested in the future of the oceans in Glasgow:
“To conserve the world’s oceans we must go beyond science, and use it to inform policy and management, and ultimately to catalyze […]
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Tagged biodiversity, conservation, fishing, lakes and seas, marine, oceans
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