Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] NO Government suggests visa free NOFIRU National Park
Date: Aug 24, 2003 @ 20:48
Author: Jan S. Krogh ("Jan S. Krogh" <jan.krogh@...>)
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When it comes to the point maybe it was the Finns who started this project of «transboundary cooperation of protected areas»:

http://www.metsa.fi/natural/annualreport/2001/transboundary.htm
http://www.metsa.fi/natural/cooperation/inaripasvik/pasvikzapo.html

A little about the Russian-Norwegian border zone:

http://www.svanhovd.no/jubile_bros/intro_sim.html

http://www.kirkenes.vgs.no/fag/biologi/rajakoski/omprosjektet_eng.htm

Photos:

The three last photos are of the Pasvik river from Rajakoski village on Russian side (nord=north; nordover=towards north):
http://www.kirkenes.vgs.no/fag/biologi/rajakoski/var_2002/var_2002_bilder.htm
Remains of a German bridge from WWI (photo «Pasvikelva»I:

http://www.kirkenes.vgs.no/fag/biologi/rajakoski/var_2002/10_var_2002_600.jpg

NOFIRU forrest maps:

http://www.metsa.fi/natural/cooperation/inaripasvik/map1.html
http://www.metsa.fi/natural/cooperation/inaripasvik/map2.html

Map of air pollution stations at the NORU boundary:

http://www.nilu.no/niluweb/index.cfm?lang=3&id=211&type=3&senter=1028&sub=231&link=0

Jan