Objective
Felling of forests, reafforestation with pine, uncontrolled nature tourism and boating, building of holiday homes and the decline of traditional grazing are all looming over the internationally unique Merenkurku (alias Kvarken or Quark) Archipelago. Geomorphologically unusual in being one of the best examples in the world of the long and narrow De Geer -moraines, a rare formation shaped by the last Ice Age, Merenkurku's bizarre topography is a product of these moraines, the withdrawal of the ice and submergence by the Baltic and the rapid isostatic uplift (c. 9 mm/year) of the land in reaction to the disappearance of the ice. This foundation in turn hosts an extraordinarily representative succession series (vegetation and geoformations): lagoons, fladas and glo-lakes; barren heaths, old spruce-dominated mixed forests, birch forest, shore meadows and park-like birch groves grazed by sheep. This is the northernmost place where the marine fauna and flora of the Baltic Sea occur.
The miracle is that Merenkurku is still so unspoilt. In order to properly integrate nature conservation, recreational use and local people's traditional use of land (hunting, berry-picking, firewood cutting ...) LIFE will complement other initiatives towards sustainability funded under the ERDF, Interreg and Regulation 2078/92, by drawing up a management plan in collaboration with landowners, tourism operators and other local interest groups for part of the archipelago. It will include land use zoning and a tourism master plan so that recreational use and small-scale nature tourism dovetail with the aims of nature conservation.
Meanwhile, LIFE will also quadruple the size of the protected core areas, by financing land purchase and compensation for giving up rights to build holiday homes or exploit forests. Planted forestry monocultures will be removed while grazing by sheep and hay-making will be started up again in grove and meadow habitats.
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65101 Vaasa
Finland
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