Research into the Saimaa ringed seal has been ongoing at the University of Joensuu and the University of Eastern Finland since the late 1970s. This line of research started with population census and the development of conservation measures. The size of the Saimaa ringed seal population has now taken a turn for the better, and […]

The highly endangered Saimaa ringed seal is characteristic to the Finnish lakelands and something Finns feel strongly about. The seal population must be preserved not only because of this, but also for reasons pertaining to natural history. LUT’s Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Research Group (CVPR) has been tackling this issue since 2015. Now it […]

CoExist, a collaborative project focusing on the sustainable coexistence of freshwater seals and humans in Finland and Russia, has secured a three-year funding. Launched in April, the project seeks to enhance Finnish-Russian research collaboration and raise awareness of seal-human coexistence among different stakeholders. CoExist is a new larger scale opening in Finnish-Russian seal research in […]