Products and Materials of the Saimaa Seal LIFE Project

The Saimaa Seal LIFE project produced many types of information on the Saimaa ringed seal to support the work of the authorities, to enrich the experience of nature tourists and to provide environmental education for schoolchildren. In addition to Metsähallitus Parks and Wildlife Finland, reports, brochures and other material were also published by the other project partners: University of Eastern Finland, Natural Resources Institute Finland, University of Turku, Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (South Savo and North Karelia), Finnish Federation for Recreational Fishing, The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation and WWF Finland.

You will find all the material published during the project on this page, grouped by the theme. The letter and number combination indicates the project’s action category.

Outlined schedule and progress (pdf, 84 Kb)

Production of New Information

(A1) MSc. Thesis, Korhonen Satu: Wintertime disturbances in the breeding habitat of Saimaa ringed seal (Phoca hispida saimensis) (University of Eastern Finland, epublications.uef.fi, in Finnish)
(A2) Poster: Core home range areas as an indicator of breeding time territoriality in female Saimaa ringed seals (University of Eastern Finland, pdf, 4 842 Kb)
(A2) Scientific article Niemi Marja et al. (2019) Winter behavior of Saimaa ringed seals: Non-overlapping core areas as indicators of avoidance in breeding females (journals.plos.org)
A2 PhD Thesis Auttila Miina (2015) The endangered Saimaa ringed seal in a changing climate: challenges for conservation and monitoring
(A4) Manuscript abstracts:
- Assessment of the causes of death and survival rate (Natural Resources Institute Finland, pdf, 6 Kb, in Finnish)
- Forecasts on survival and population size (Natural Resources Institute Finland, pdf, 93 Kb, in Finnish)
(D1) Water owner’s attitudes towards Saimaa ringed seal and it’s conservation (Natural Resources Institute, jukuri.luke.fi, in Finnish)
(D3) Attitudes towards the Saimaa ringed seal and awareness of the conservation measures 2018 (Metsähallitus, pdf, 591 Kb, in Finnish)
(D4) Development and present status of the attitudes and atmosphere for Saimaa ringed seal conservation (University of Turku, www.utu.fi, pdf, 1683 Kb)

Prevention of the Human-induced Disturbance

(A7) LS-lain 47 §:n tarkoittama erityisesti suojeltavan lajin säilymiselle tärkeä esiintymispaikka (South-Savo Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, pdf, 40 Kb)
(C3) Maps of the most important breeding areas of the Saimaa ringed seal (Metsähallitus, julkaisut.metsa.fi, in Finnish)
(C3) Most important breeding areas of the Saimaa ringed seal in Linnansaari National Park (Metsähallitus)
(C3) Marking of the Protected Areas (Metsähallitus and South-Savo Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, pdf, 1166 Kb, in Finnish)
(B1) Land Purchase, maps of purchased areas:
- Haapaselkä (South-Savo Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, pdf, 228 Kb)
- Katosselkä (South-Savo Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, pdf, 761 Kb)
- Lietvesi (South-Savo Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, pdf, 221 Kb)
- Pihlajavesi: Satama (South-Savo Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, pdf, 265 Kb)
- Pihlajavesi: Susiniemi (South-Savo Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, pdf, 254 Kb)