From the April 2019 Institute of Limnology RAS has started to do a field study as a part of the project Water meets people – learn, act and influence SEVIRA....

A joint cross-border hydrological monitoring meeting was organized in Lappeenranta on 6-8th May....

The project has started successfully and the work has been carried out so far as planned. First SEVIRA progress meeting took place in St. Petersburg 15-16 April, 2019. In the progress meeting all work......

The SEVIRA river monitoring programme contains of 12 sampling rounds on 2019 and according to the arrangements the annual monitoring will continue till spring 2021. The first round of the project rive......

An international seminar in the Water quality and environmental education was organized by the SEVIRA project in the city of Vyborg in Russia on March 19th 2019 to enhance cooperation between Russia a......

The first workshop of the hydrological work package was held in St. Petersburg on March 6, 2019. One aim of this work package is to increase conversation and knowledge exchange of hydrological monitor......

A meeting of hydrological work package within the framework of SEVIRA project was held on 1st February in the office of Roshydromet in St. Petersburg. ...

Water meets people – learn, act and influence SEVIRA –project had a two day Kick-off in December....

At the end of the Year of the Environment 2017 Russia decided to establish a new National Park in the Lake Ladoga archipelago and a new Nature Park on the islands of the Eastern Gulf of Finland and th......

© Mats Westerbom The co-operation to protect the marine environment of the Gulf of Finland has its foundations in the times after the World War II. The collaboration in the field of ...

2017 Next Trilateral Estonian-Finnish-Russian Gulf of Finland Forum From small scales to large scales –The Gulf of Finland Science Days 2017 will take place in Tallinn on Oct 9th-10...

Documents Declaration on co-operation to protect the marine environment of the Gulf of Finland and its coastal regions Co-operation Programme of the Gulf of Finland trilateral co-oper...

Coordination committee Estonia Deputy Secretary General Harry Liiv ,  Ministry of the Environment Director General Rene Reisner , Water Department, Ministry of the Environmen...

Background Extending from the Baltic Sea to the Arctic Ocean, the Green Belt includes valuable natural areas in Finland, Russia and Norway. Its core is made up of national parks and other prot...

Finland, Estonia and Russia have conducted an exceptionally extensive survey of the Gulf of Finland, covering the entire sea area as part of the Gulf of Finland Year 2014....

Intellectual models and sustainable nature use know-how will be implemented within the project in pilot areas of the Green Belt of Fennoscandia (GBF). Also, innovative approaches to promote the effic...

Project Description The overall objective of the Balthazar project was to promote protection of the Baltic Sea protection from hazardous waste and agricultural nutrient loading. This a...

Project Description The overall objective of the Balthazar project was to promote protection of the Baltic Sea protection from hazardous waste and agricultural nutrient loading. This a...

Of the boreal or taiga forests in the world, 60 % are located in Russia. The volume of the Russian forest resources is unique and so are the specific features of nature. Some of the vast old-growth f...

Northwest Russia still boasts huge, almost intact forest and mire landscapes that have, when it comes to their size and biodiversity, no match in Europe. Many of these areas have no protection...