1. Pilot Boreal Natura 2000 Workshop
Forests
Pilot Boreal Natura 2000 Workshop
Esko Hyvärinen
Natural Heritage Services

2. Forest habitat types Conservation status Unfavourable-bad
9010 Western Taiga
9050 Fennoscandian herb-rich forests with Picea abies
9060 Coniferous forests on, or connected to, glaciofluvial eskers
9080 Fennoscandian deciduous swamp woods
91E0 Alluvial forests with Alnus glutinosa and Fraxinus excelsior
Conservation status Unfavourable-bad
– 91E0 Unfavourable-inadequate
Esko Hyvärinen

3. What are the common problems in management of habitats?
Shortage of natural disturbances
Forestry and other land use outside Natura 2000 areas – increasing fragmentation and decreasing connectivity
Uneven distribution of protected areas within boreal region
Human induced changes in habitat quality, e.g. tree species composition, age structure, spatial and temporal availability of variable dead wood resources
Restoration of hydrology
Lack of funding for restoration and monitoring and for compensations to landowners
Challenges in landscape level approach
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4. Are there information gaps concerning these problems?
What is the optimal management of naturally dynamic disturbance driven ecosystems?
How natural disturbance factors and disturbance regimes should be mimicked?
How different disturbances should be applied in management of areas – where, when, frequency, intensity?
Insufficient knowledge of fire use methodology
Insufficient knowledge in ecological effects of different restoration measures
Insufficient knowledge in restoration ecology
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5. Are there particularly relevant examples of good practice?
Guidelines for forest restoration and management of forest habitats
Forest Biodiversity Programme for Southern Finland (the METSO-programme)
Network of Fire Continuity Areas (FI) and ecological strategy for fire prone habitats ”Eldskäl” (SE)
Several EU Life and other projects
Examples of successful management actions
Collaboration with military, forest companies etc. in certain areas
Esko Hyvärinen

6. Are there concrete possibilities for cooperation?
Towards favourable conservation status of forests at boreal level
Are there concrete possibilities for cooperation?
Are there proposals for concrete cooperative actions that could be launched at the seminar?
Esko Hyvärinen