The Natural Resources Institute Finland conducts elk flight counts in south-western, southern and eastern Lapland. The aim is to complete the counts by the end of February.
The Natural Resources Institute Finland has started flight counts of moose in Lapland. On Monday, a helicopter was used to fly in Salla. On Tuesday, the counts will start in Simo and continue from there via Keminmaa, Tervola and Tornio to Ylitorno.
Later, counts will be made in the areas of Savukoski, Pelkosenniemi and the game management associations of Kemijärvi, Posio and Ranua.
The aim is to end the flights by the end of February.
The calculation is based on the distance method. In the method, the distances of deer herds and individual deer from the counting line are observed, which is used to evaluate the observability of the count.
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