Nuorajärvi Restoration Begins to Protect Endangered Divers and Mergansers
Restoration work at Nuorajärvi in Teisko will dredge about 1.7 hectares and build nesting islands to protect endangered red-breasted mergansers and black-throated divers; work runs from September to next March.
Work at Nuorajärvi in Teisko begins in September and is due to finish by the end of next March, YLE says.
About 1.7 hectares of new open water will be dredged, and a series of islands of varying sizes and shapes will be built to give waterbirds sheltered nesting and feeding sites. The measures are intended to protect species listed under the EU Birds Directive, the Centre for Vitality in Inland Finland said.
Nuorajärvi is a nationally valuable Natura 2000 wetland that has hosted the critically endangered red-breasted merganser and the endangered black-throated diver.
Dredging spoil will be excavated and transported to farmland outside the protected area for deposit. The works will go ahead with a Water Act permit and consent from landowners. They are part of the Priodiversity Life project and the Helmi Habitat Programme to strengthen Finland’s biodiversity.
The Nuorajärvi work is part of a wider push to restore wetlands and bird habitat around Tampere. It follows large-scale fyke net fishing at Iidesjärvi to improve conditions for breeding waterfowl the city's spring fish harvest, and local efforts to grow endangered plants for habitat restoration by a Tampere startup.
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