The Boreal Eco-Forestry Conference conference took place online 4-5 april 2022 (see announcement here). It was organised by the Lapland district of the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation, in cooperation with Protect the Forest, Sweden. The conference was a part of the Kolarctic CBC project “Adapting management of Barents forests to future climate and economy…
This is a introduction to a series of programs about boreal and temperate food forests and their stewards, about biodiversity and climate adaptation. A forest garden is a food-producing ecosystem, usually dominated by perennial plants with edible parts. It is a layered system with everything from high and low fruit and nut trees, to shrubs…
BackgroundNorthern Europe had, until recently, large intact areas of old-growth forest. Remnants of these forests are located in a horseshoe shape running along the Scandes mountains in Norway and Sweden, up to the Lapp regions of northern Finland, and then to northwestern Russia. But today only a small part of Fennoscandia’s old-growth forests remain. In…
