Customs enhances the combat against African swine fever by training a new customs dog to detect foodstuffs of animal origin at Helsinki Airport. The new food detector dog will be placed at Helsinki Airport, because the African swine fever had spread to Asia in the last years and because a great number of passengers travel from Asia to Finland.

In its most recent report, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) examines the relationship of land use to climate change mitigation and adaptation. The climate impacts of land use and the solutions needed to tackle them vary greatly from one part of the world to the other. In Finland, the focus of the analysis is on the country’s expansive forests and peatlands.

The Government is participating in a development project to cease hydroelectric power production on the River Hiitolanjoki and restore the rapids on the Finnish side of the river. The River Hiitolanjoki, which flows into Lake Ladoga, is the only river in Finland with a native population of landlocked Atlantic salmon. In addition to Ladoga salmon, the river is also home to trout that grow to a considerable size.