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The Imatra.fi website uses Google Translate.
The Imatra.fi website uses Google Translate.
The mission of the Imatra region's environmental action is to promote nature conservation in the region. With various statements and decisions, the protection needs of valuable natural sites are brought to the fore.
The environmental action cooperates with land use planning by bringing to the fore aspects of nature conservation in planning processes.
In the area of Imatra, Parikkala, Rautjärvi and Ruokolahti there are many different nature reserves and sites. There are areas and sites on lands owned by the state, private individuals and communities. Some of them are officially protected, some through conservation programs and some protected by the landowner's own decision.
For nature conservation areas, conservation is applied for from the state authority, the ELY center of South-Eastern Finland.
Everyone can calm down and protect the land they own by their own voluntary decision.
The municipality decides on the pacification of natural monuments. The interested party, i.e. the landowner, can apply for an easement decision from the authority. Based on the application, the authority considers whether there is a basis for the easement decision.
Through the METSO program, you can simultaneously apply for a protection decision and compensation to protect the old forest permanently or for a limited period of time.
More information about nature conservation and nature reserves can be found, for example, on the websites of ELY centers.
The Ornithological Association of South Karelia maintains a website presenting South Karelia's birds and birding sites.
South Karelia Ornithological Association
Metsähallitus has published map-based information about the most important nesting areas of the Saimaa norpa. The nest density maps drawn up for different parts of Saimaa help those moving on the spring ice to understand where the nests of the Saimaa ptarmigan are densest, i.e. where the risk of disturbing the nesting peace of the ptarmigan is greatest. The Saimaan Norppa-LIFE project examined issues and questions related to the protection of the Saimaan Norppa.
Excursion destinations to the nature of South Karelia can be found on the website of the South Karelia Recreation Area Foundation
Excursion destinations in South Karelia
Everyman's rights means the opportunity for everyone staying in Finland to use nature, regardless of who owns the area.
Everyman's rights (ymparisto.fi)
Alien species are organisms that have spread from their natural range to a new area, such as garden plants, game animals, aquatic organisms or pests. In general, the alien species does not adapt to the new habitat and is quickly destroyed. In some cases, alien species do particularly well and become established in the habitat. An alien species becomes harmful if it causes a significant threat in its new habitat through its spread. At worst, an alien species changes the environment, makes it difficult for native species to survive, spreads diseases or causes damage to crops or forestry, for example. Harm can also be caused to the recreational use of nature and the use and value of real estate.
1.1.2016 the national alien species act and the decree on nationally significant harmful alien species have entered into force. The purpose of the law is to combat harm caused by alien species by, among other things, preventing the importation and spread of the species in the environment. The regulation defines non-native species found to be harmful in Finland, which are not included in the EU's list of non-native species. Both the EU alien species list and the national list are revised and supplemented as necessary.