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Environmental protection and nature conservation
Environmental protection focuses on the prevention of damage. One way of doing this is to use a permit procedure. Financial controls, for example taxation, can also be used to help preserve the environment.
Nature conservation focuses on preserving biodiversity. National parks and nature reserves contribute to the overall aim of preservation. Endangered species, both flora and fauna, have a better chance of survival in them.
Everyone is in a position to influence the state of the living environment. Consumer habits and making them more environmentally friendly have a key role here.
The Ministry of the Environment implements policy on the environment. The Finnish Environment Institute studies changes in the environment, produces data and develops ways of protecting the air, the waters and the soil.
The sections responsible for the environment and natural resources of the Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment deal with environmental issues in their own regions. The sections responsible for environmental permits in the Regional State Administrative Agencies deal with and decide on environmental permits under the Environmental Protection Act and the Water Act. Local authorities are responsible for local environmental protection and monitoring, and they decide on applications for environmental permits from small plants.
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City of Vantaa - Habitat restoration work

Habitat restoration means helping peatland and forests return to their natural state.
Metsähallitus - Soil protection

Information on soil protection polices.
Ministry of the Environment - Lumonet - biological diversity in Finland

The Finnish clearing-house mechanism of the Convention on Biological Diversity.
Finnish Environment Institute SYKE - State and development of nature in Finland

Latest research based information on the state and development of nature in Finland. Development of various components of biological diversity and factors driving these developments are presented with help of more than 100 indicators.
Ministry of the Environment, Produced by several organisations - Protecting natural habitats

Information about threatened habitat types in Finland and the habitat types protected under the Nature Conservation Act.
Ministry of the Environment - Environmental protection

Information on air and water pollution control, noise abatement, waste management, environmental emergency response, economic environmental policy instruments, and sustainable consumption.
Ministry of the Environment - Nature conservation

Information about protected areas and species, protecting and monitoring natural habitats, landscape protection.
Ministry of the Environment
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