#Saimaa

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Ice art

satunkuva

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Lake Saimaa, Finland

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Lake Saimaa

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A few mementos from my trip to Eastern Finnish spa.

View from the chalet hours after sunrise at around 8 am 👇

Photos were taken 18 and 19 June, 2024

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Finnish saimaa ringed seal

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Rastiniemi, Finland 2024.

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This year, the number of the Saimaa ringed seals has increased by tens of individuals to around 480. Last year, the size of the stock was 436 the Saimaa Ringed Seals.

Metsähallitus' annual stock assessment describes the situation in January, when the stock is at its lowest. The survivors of the litters born in the spring will only be included in next year's assessment.

Thanks to conservation measures, the number of the Saimaa ringed seals has doubled in just over 20 years.

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finnish music, someone??

hey everyone

could you do me a favour and listen to Olisinpa täällä by the band Saimaa

it's probably the best album i have ever heard (and it should be listened to as a full album)

go give it a listen

i am begging you

it's perfect

it's a mix of rock and rap and sometimes the perform it live with an orchestra and-

-and i am so normal about it

here is a link to the album on YT

and for those interested in a live version witch an orchestra, you can find it here:

i need more people who will be very normal about this with me

[anthropologistfromentropy]

The seal part is not quite true, Lake Saimaa has an exclusively freshwater seal too! Though they might still technically be one species, they certainly aren't breeding with each other. They look basically the same though.

Do y’all ever think about how absolutely bananas Lake Baikal is? It’s the world’s largest lake by volume. It’s the world’s deepest lake. It’s the world’s oldest lake. It contains nearly a quarter of the planet’s surface freshwater. It’s a rift lake, caused by the earth’s crust literally coming apart at the seams. It would be deeper than the Mariana Trench except the bottom is covered in a sediment layer that is miles deep. There are trains that have sunk to the bottom because Russia tried to build a railroad over the ice. The entire lake surface freezes for half the year. The lake is a focal point of multiple indigenous cultures. The lake has its own species of seal, which is the only exclusively freshwater pinniped in the world. There are unique ice formations formed by convection from the depths of the lake. There are 330 inflowing rivers.

I dunno, Lake Baikal sure is a thing.

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Saimaa by Janne Karvinen

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Il Lago Saimaa

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Today's Seal Is: Leggies

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saimaa, 2023

©lennart laberenz

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Happy to announce the new comic series, "Saimaa" done in collaboration with Finnish Association for Nature Conversation. Join the exciting life of the Saimaa Ringed Seal later this spring.

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Round Two: Roots & Relics

Saimaa Ringed Seal vs Coelacanth

Habitat: Underwater sea caves

Photos by Ismo Pekkarinen and Laurent Ballest

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Rastiniemi, Finland 2024.