Nature

The printer conquered the forest near Räätykänmäki in Riihimäki. The city responds to the forest pest with the old method.

Forest damage caused by insects is increasing in Finland. According to the Finnish Natural Resources Agency, last year there was more damage caused by bark beetles than in any previous year.

– All this was the result of the long, hot and, above all, dry summer of 2021. The printing press in particular benefits from climate change, Melin reminds.

Insect damage is caused at least by bark beetles, bookworms, spruce star borers, true multiple borers, core borers, pine beetles and wood borers.

Of these destructions caused by book printers are especially common in kuusikas. Riihimäki has a particularly bad printer problem in the Räätykänmäki district.

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Motor vehicles are allowed to travel on the ice of the lake, but the restrictions must be taken into account. Some of the restrictions apply to the whole lake, not just a part of it.

In addition to safety issues, questions have also been raised as to whether driving a motor vehicle is always allowed on ice?

According to the legislation, driving a motor vehicle in an ice-covered water area is based on the general right of way. However, when using the rights, the Land Traffic Act must be taken into account.

Private individuals, communities and owners of water areas can submit a request to the ely center for the imposition of a regional driving ban or restriction. The decision takes into account, among other things, potential harm to nature or other environments.

Heikkilä admits that there are so many sections and restrictions nowadays that it is unclear to many what is allowed where.

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Trout without fat fins can be caught if it is at least 60 centimeters long. Fatfin trout has been financed.

The size of fin cut, i.e. stocked trout, has been increased in the Kymijoki watershed.

In the future, in Päijänte, in both Heinola and Hartola fishing areas, you can catch trout without fat fins, which are at least sixty centimeters long.

The purpose is to improve the yield of the plantations, as larger fish survive better in the wild and their chance to reproduce naturally increases. For example, the fish planted in Päijänte grow quickly because the most important food, muikku, is abundant. Due to the rapid growth, some of the placentas are caught too early, and they may not have had time to grow to sexual maturity.

The new, higher minimum size than the one recorded in the Fisheries Act has been approved in the use and management plans of fisheries areas.

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The variegated fan worm has been found in four places in the Åland archipelago. Ballast water has been suggested as the primary cause of the spread.

A new alien species, the rainbow fan worm, has established itself in Åland. It has been found in four places in the Åland archipelago.

The variegated fan worm is an alien species that was found in the Baltic Sea for the first time in 2012 in Pärnu bay. The first observation from Finnish coastal areas is from 2014 and from Åland from 2021.

The origin of the centimeter-long roundworm is still unknown, but ballast water has been suggested as the primary cause of its spread.

Also observed mud tubeworms and mud mussels

In other respects, the benthic fauna survey states that mud pipe worms are now the most widespread group of benthic animals in Åland. Slime tubeworms were found in Åland for the first time in 1993. Since then, they have spread all over Åland’s coastal waters.

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The collapsed nest was found when WWF and volunteers were cramming helpers for nesting. Nesting peace will be declared next week.

The nest of the Saimaa norpa has been blatantly disturbed in southern Saimaa.

On a snowmobile, I had been driven crosswise over a snowbank, where a norpa had already tried to make a nest. The nest had finally collapsed and there was only an opening made by a norpa.

WWF experts and volunteers found the destroyed nest when they were digging up helpers to facilitate nesting.

WWF will declare a nesting ban for Saimaa grouse next week, but those moving around Saimaa should already remember to respect the Saimaa grouse’s nesting nests.

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In North Ostrobothnia, around 990 yards in the area of \u200b\u200bthe two associations, more than 330 yards in Kainuu, participated in the event of the last weekend of January.

The Birdlife Suomen Pihabongaus event organized at the end of January once again aroused a lot of interest both in North Ostrobothnia and in Kainuu

This year, the yard party was organized on the 28th–29th. January. Online reporting of results ended on Friday, February 3.

Over the course of two days, birds were observed in a total of almost 989 yards in the areas of the Ornithological Association of North Ostrobothnia and the Kuusamo Bird Club. Last year, a record 1,116 yards in these areas participated in the bonga event.

There were 334 yards in the area of \u200b\u200bthe Kainuu Ornithological Association. There, too, the 2022 Pihabongaus was the busiest in the history of the event, there were 379 yards at that time.

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According to the researcher, Finland is one of the best lit places in Europe. This is harmful to both people and nature.

Sometimes everyday life is miserable. Stressing.

How we are all part of it.

How the universe has developed over a long period of time in such a way that it is able to observe itself.

Rintamäki calls these basic things. Thinking about them makes you feel better.

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A state of emergency has been declared in the country due to the heat wave. Temperatures that have risen to 40 degrees have made it difficult to extinguish wildfires.

In Chile, at least 23 people have died in hundreds of wildfires, a government official said on Saturday evening.

According to Monsalve, more than 230 active fires were fought at the same time on Saturday.

A state of emergency has been declared in the country due to the heat wave. Temperatures that have risen to 40 degrees in the central parts of the country have made it difficult to extinguish wildfires. Fires have been raging in the country since Wednesday.

A total of around 2,300 rescuers and 75 aircraft are trying to put out the fires in hot conditions. At least one rescuer is said to have died and eight were injured during the firefighting operations.

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More than 80 percent are of the opinion that there are too many wolves in Kuhmo. The majority of respondents considered the number of bears, lynxes and wolverines to be appropriate.

There are too many wolves, not so much other big beasts. This is the opinion of the majority of respondents to the Kuhmo large predator working group’s municipal survey.

About 950 responses were received to the municipal survey conducted between December and January. Two thirds of them declared that they were from Kuhmo.

More than seven out of ten feel that large beasts have been harmful to everyday life. The majority of them are of the opinion that large animals prevent the hobby. Every fourth of them experiences fear and more than four out of five say that the number of large carnivores has influenced their keeping dogs or hunting with them.

The majority would increase population maintenance hunting

More than half of the respondents would increase population management hunting of large carnivores. About a quarter would increase so-called removal permits in order to reduce the number of prey. Few people think that people should just learn to adapt to life with beasts.

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The ice crust in the Hange makes it difficult, for example, for owls to prey on owls and grouse birds to protect themselves in severe frost.

For many birds living in the forest, the search for food and protection is difficult in some places due to the ice crust on the surface of the snow cover or in the middle.

January was exceptionally mild in many places, and the frosts that came after the rains made the surface of the snow harden.

It is difficult for owls that use moles or smolts as food if they cannot catch prey through the ice cover.

According to Kärkkäinen, however, so far no signs of several starving birds have been observed. The weather in the coming weeks will determine how the owls will fare in those areas where there is ice cover.

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