Beneficiary: The most important Uusimaa Regional Environment Centre Management of Partners: measures within Wetland Tero Taponen Tero
Southeast Finland Regional Environment Centre Ranatra/Minna Impiö wetlands along Life project include: Metsähallitus Finnish Environment Institute the Gulf of Finland City of Helsinki migratory flyway the restoration of meadowland City of Espoo Layout and drawings habitats suitable for waders Central Uusimaa regional water protection 2003-2007 the removal of aquatic vegetation
council Antti Below, Uusimaa Game Management District and the creation of diverse wetland
Uusimaa Road Administration District Cover photo habitat patchworks WWF Ilpo Huolman BirdLife Finland the creation of suitable open Kymi Game Management District aquatic habitat for large white-faced SE Finland Road Administration District darters (Leucorrhinia pectoralis) Contributory funding provided by: City of Järvenpää City of Porvoo Municipality of Tuusula Municipality of Pernaja Municipality of Kirkkonummi Eastern Uusimaa Regional Council Ilpo Huolman Tero Taponen Tero Fingrid Oyj Society of Swedish Literature in Finland SE Finland Employment and Economic Centre Kymenlaakso Regional Council Kouvola Regional Council City of Hamina City of Kotka Municipality of Iitti Municipality of Jaala Marjo Priha Petri Parkko Municipality of Virolahti
Project coordinators: Marjo Priha Uusimaa Regional Environment Centre Tel. +358 20 490 101
Esa Korkeamäki www.ymparisto.fi/lintulahdetlife Southeast Finland Regional Environment Centre Tel. +358 20 490 105 This Wetland Life project in- shore meadows and open waters volves habitat restoration work in have been actively cleared, and 12 bird wetland sites, all of which steps have been taken to reduce form part of the Natura 2000 the numbers of small predatory network and lie along the Gulf of mammals. Facilities for the rec- Finland migratory flyway. reational use of the wetlands have been improved by constructing The project aims to improve the viewing towers, duckboard trails, significance of these sites as stag- notice boards and nature trails. Ruff ing areas for birds on migration, Philomachus pugnax and to improve the habitat pros- The project is financed by the EU pects for wetland species listed in Life Nature Fund and 27 Finn- Smew the Bird Directive and the Habi- ish partners in addition to the Mergus albellus tats Directive. During the project regional environment centres of period (2003-2007) overgrown Uusimaa and Southeast Finland. Project sites
1. Saltfjärden, Kirkkonummi
Marsh harrier 2. Medvastö-Stormossen, Kirkkonummi Circus aeruginosus 3. Laajalahti Bay, Espoo 4. Lake Tuusula, Tuusula 5. Vanhankaupunginlahti Bay, Helsinki 6. Porvoonjoki estuary-Stensböle, Porvoo 7. Pernajanlahti Bay, Pernaja 8. Pyhäjärvi, Iitti, Jaala and Valkeala 9. Salminlahti Bay, Kotka and Hamina 10. Lake Kirkkojärvi, Hamina 11. Pappilansaari-Lupinlahti Bay, Hamina 12. Kirkon-Vilkkiläntura, Virolahti Bittern Botaurus stellaris