Support for the restoration and management of woodland habitats, under the Nature Conservation Act
View connections →Woodland habitats and habitats of endangered forest species can be managed with discretionary support under the Nature Conservation Act.
Published by: Economic Development Centre · Government organisation
Description language: English
Coverage: Finland, excluding Åland
About this service
Description
It is possible to restore, rehabilitate and manage woodland habitats with degraded status with support under the Nature Conservation Act. Such sites include herb-rich forests with spruce trees, forests with white-backed woodpeckers, overgrown sunny slopes of eskers, as well as drained rich fens and other nutrient-rich marshes.
You can apply for support from the Economic Development Centre. Supported operations may include, for example, reducing spruce trees in herb-rich forests or broadleaved forests, exposing mineral soil in sunny environment or blocking ditches on a fen, as well as planning measures.
The support is granted as a good or a service. Granting support as a good or service means that the landowner receives the support as a restoration or maintenance service or a good, e.g. the filter fabric needed for the restoration of marshes, not as a monetary compensation for doing it. The support is mainly one-off.
The objective of the support is to improve the ecological status of degraded forest and marsh habitats and species and to promote their adaptation to climate change.
How to use it
Apply for the support using the application form.
Submit the form to the Economic Development Centre as an attachment to the general service form. The form can also be submitted by post, by email, or in person
If you are applying for support for a land owned by another party, the application must be accompanied by the landowner's written consent. The support is granted to the landowner.
Conditions
Discretionary support under the Nature Conservation Act is primarily targeted at sites implemented under the Nature Conservation Act, example private nature conservation areas and habitat demarcation areas, and other sites of species or habitat value.
Other sites with valuable habitats may include herb-rich forests, broadleaved forests, spruce mires, fens and other nutrient-rich marshes. Sites managed by means of support that are valuable in terms of species can, for example, be habitats of endangered species in woodland habitats, in case the species benefits from the restoration measures. The support will not be granted to a site for which other state aid has been granted, e.g. METKA, agri-environmental subsidy.
The granting of the support is based on the overall consideration of the Economic Development Centre, which takes into account the nature values of the site, the regional management priority of the site, the benefits achieved by the measures for the ecological status of the site, as well as an estimate of the costs of the measures. Support is granted within the limits of the approved state budget and the appropriations of the Economic Development Centre.
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