Enchanted by Nature – Getting Acquainted with the Boarder Area Nature

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The nature in the border region has been extensively researched as a Finnish-Russian cooperation effort for over thirty years now in various university projects and for 15 years as cooperation of the environmental administration. Research results have been published in hundreds of books, reports, dissertations and articles. The purpose of this project was to collect research information about the nature of the border regions in the provinces of Kainuu and North Karelia in Finland and in the Kalevala, Kostomuksha, Suojärvi and Muezersky districts in the Republic of Karelia. The collected information was to be edited for general reading, and the outcome should provide material in Finnish, Russian, English and German. The resulting information packages were intended to be used in the marketing of the region and promoting international nature tourism, as well as in schools, environmental teaching and education simultaneously. Subjects to be presented in the plan included the history of man and nature, rock and ground foundations, water systems, vegetation and flora, large carnivores, forest reindeer and the versatility of old forests in the border regions. The focus of the themes would be in the Friendship Park Nature Reserve. The project was to be a continuation of the previous projects of Metsähallitus (Return to the Sources - environmental education cherishing the traditions) and the Environment Centre (Impact of Russian Karelian forests on animal populations in the old-growth forests of Kainuu region).

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