What do you get when you give paints, sticks and canvases to a bunch of SEAmBOTH stakeholders and tell them to drip, drop, slam, splatter and splurge us a better and a healthier Bothnian Bay? You get a triptyck of three individual, yet still connected paintings with beautifully balanced colors and patterns, that look like … Continue reading Empowering the stakeholders
Every year the teachers of Finland gather for the Environmental Education days. The aim of the event is to bring new ideas to daily teaching of environmental education to kindergarten kids, elementary school children, high school teenagers or any other group of people they might be teaching. The event takes place in different localities every … Continue reading Teaching the teachers
Last Saturday a day to celebrate the archipelago was hosted at the beautiful harbour Västra Kajen in Piteå . We, marine biologists from the County Administrative Board of Norrbotten, were there to bring SEAmBOTH and the marine life to the visitors. Photo by Linnea Bergdahl, County Administrative Board of Norrbotten. Photo by Linnea Bergdahl, County … Continue reading The marine life of Bothnian Bay met the people of Bothnian Bay – Skärgårdsfesten in Piteå 2018
The Metsähallitus SEAmBOTH-team took part in the Raahe Maritime Festival 14th to 15th of July. The event was organized for the fourth time and thousands of visitors attended, the official estimate was 19 500 visitors! Photo by Noora Kantola, Metsähallitus. The weather was absolutely beautiful during the whole Festival! Sun was shining, there was hardly any … Continue reading Pooki Flakkaa – Raahe Maritime Festival 2018
Photo by Essi Keskinen, Metsähallitus. There is an annual boating event in the Bothnian Bay national park known as Sarvipäivät. This year Metsäahallitus organized a week-long archipelago event, Saaristopäivät, instead. The week 25.6-1.7.2018 we celebrated the archipelago life, the national park, recreational boating and all things marine in the Northern Bothnian Bay. SEAmBOTH registered the … Continue reading How we do it: Arcihpelago days, Perämeren saaristopäivät
The youth are the future. This is so true, especially in the field of marine conservation. And how best to tell kids how to protect our native Bothnian Bay, than to drag them out of their classrooms and off of their smart phones, and take them into nature and show what marine biologists really do. … Continue reading School kids out of class rooms
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