Articles are about the plants, animals,climate and human impact on the nature in the Barents region. The articles are from the publication: CAFF (Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna) 2001. Arctic Flora and Fauna: Status and Conservation. The whole publication is available online in address: www.caff.is

Biology & Zoology (CAFF)

• How land animals adapt to cold and snow 
• Staying warm in a cold climate 
• Conserving Arctic char
• The Atlantic salmon: a species in trouble 
• Life within sea ice
• Climate and fish stocks in the Barents sea
• Fish species in Finland
• Brown bear
• Mosquitoes
• Lemmings: key actors in the tundra food web
• Scandlynx
• Wolves 
• Mountain birch and the Nordic treeline

Climate, nature and humans (CAFF)

• The North Atlantic oscillation and reindeer husbandry
• Northern farming
• Protected areas in Northern Fennoscandia
• Tourism – threat or benefit to conservation?
• Management and biodiversity in Fennoscandian timberline forests 
• Habitat fragmentation: a threat to arctic biodiversity and wilderness
• International legal instruments for conservation

Other articles and links

• Northern Nature - includes a general description of the nature, ecology, vegetation and animal world in Northern Finland, and news from the nature.
• Reindeer herding 
• Red King Crab
  • The Red King Crab- article in the The Barents Sea Report, UNEP, 2004.
  • Giant Crab ’Red Army’ Invades Norway - article about the king crab’s migration in the Barents Sea in the National Geographic website.
  • The environmental danger of king crab (Video-story) Suurpedot.fi
• - Large Carnivores in Finland (In Finnish)
• Naturvårdsverket - Swedish environmental protection agency
• Track the polar bears on the ice - two polar bears are tagged with  radio collars, which beam their positions via a satellite to this web site.
• Ocean sounds - for example sounds of whales