Environmental Sciences

The Centres for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment (ELY Centres) are responsible for the regional implementation and development tasks of the central government.

The website Climateguide.fi pools practical, studied and reliable information on climate change into one address and a uniform format.

Joint website of Finland's environmental administration.

The Finnish Association for Nature Conservation (FANC) is the largest non-governmental organization for environmental protection and nature conservation in Finland.

The Finnish Environment Institute (also known as SYKE, after the Institute's Finnish acronym) is both a research institute, and a centre for environmental expertise.

The research institute of the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry.

Information about the atmosphere above and around Finland, for ensuring public safety relating to atmospheric and airborne hazards.

The Geological Survey of Finland (GTK) is a European centre of excellence in assessment, research and sustainable use of Earth resources.

Järviwiki (Lakewiki) is a web service built and maintained in cooperation by authorities and common people. In Järviwiki there is basic information of each Finnish lake over 1 ha in extent and different areas of the Baltic Sea, as well as tools for sharing observations and pictures.

Metsähallitus is a state enterprise that administers more than 12 million hectares of state-owned land and water areas. Metsähallitus has the challenging responsibility of managing and using these areas in a way that benefits Finnish society to the greatest extent possible.

The Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry steers the policy on sustainable use of natural resources.

The Ministry of the Environment is responsible for preparing matters to be submitted for consideration by the Government and Parliament, matters concerning communities, the built environment, housing, biodiversity, sustainable use of natural resources and environmental protection.

Statistics Finland combines collected data with its own expertise to produce statistics and information services. It produces the vast majority of Finnish official statistics and is a significant international actor in the field of statistics.

The American Society of Naturalists is the oldest scientific society dedicated to the study of ecology, evolution and behavior.
The goal of the society is to advance and to diffuse knowledge of organic evolution and other broad biological principles so as to enhance the conceptual unification of the biological sciences.

The Baltic Marine Environment Bibliography covers bibliographic information on the Baltic Sea, i.e. all marine areas from the Gulfs of Finland and Bothnia in the east and north to the Belt Sea and Kattegat in the west. It contains references to reports including "grey literature", journal articles, books, conference proceedings, dissertations etc. The bibliography covers material from the year 1970, currently over 13 000 references

Natural History Museum

Links to relevant scientific digital resources including primary scientific data sets, images, videos and web pages (Thomson Reuters)

The vision of the British Ecological Society is to advance ecology and make it count.

Global information system with all you ever wanted to know about fishes.

The Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) is an international open data infrastructure, funded by governments.