The Natural Heritage Foundation has purchased a riverside property near Metsäkylä in Taivalkoski, which is located around the habitat of the river mussel.
The Natural Heritage Foundation has purchased a riverside property near Metsäkylä in Taivalkoski. After protection, it will be called Lippamonsuvanto. The forest has a high biodiversity value and is a habitat for the rare river mussel.
The Korvuan River has preserved a wild population of river mussels and is one of the sites of an EU Life Nature project. The aim is to restore rivers containing river mussels.
The Natural Heritage Foundation is protecting the area as a habitat for the river mussel and other species living in the area.
Lippamonsuvanto spreads out on both sides of Korvuanjoki and contains plenty of undeveloped shoreline. The diverse area has lush mixed forest, floodplain forest, coppice, sedge, floodplain, floodplain meadow and also the floodplain of the river.
The area is home to woodpeckers and woodpeckers, and it also belongs to the territory of the golden eagle. The area is also the habitat of the beaver.
– There are beaver sheds along the beaches at both ends of the area. An incredible piece of art was found in the Länsiranta marsh: a fresh beaver dam about sixty meters long, one end of which is located in a spring that floods because of the dam, Haapala says.
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